Ben Seretan/John Thayer + the Early + Bent Light

Doors 7 / Music 8

• Ben Seretan & John Thayer - two mighty practitioners of Hudson River ambient - together channel their formidable powers into work that is graceful, sublime, and often a little sorrowful. Seated before a Fender Rhodes amid a nest of wires they call forth the specters of the valley, gathering signal noise and tape hiss as gentle as a breeze. Sunbeam of No Illusion, their debut LP as a duo, is out now on AKP Recordings.

• The Early - Alex Lewis (guitars, synthesizers) and Jake Nussbaum (drums, electronics). The two began playing music together in high school during the apex of post-rock, fixated on acts like Do Make Say Think, Jim O’Rourke and Tortoise. Reunited in Philadelphia in 2019, the two have spent the past seven years reinventing their shared musical language, infusing the textural grandeur of post-rock with the communicational intimacy of jazz improvisation, the patient grooves of minimalism, electronica, and drone. Their 2026 release, I Want To Be Ready (Island House Recordings) was described by Record Crates United as "drifty, minimalist jazz fusion soundscapes that hum, drone and rumble like the atmosphere of a clockwork city."

• Bent Light - the duo of Michael Slyne and Russel Linder. 2 punk rockers and less volume. Two guitars. Millions of pedals. Busted tape machines sing too. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes harsh. They say it feels like a dream.