Night Teacher

22 Kirk Avenue Southwest,Roanoke VA 24011

08 September, 2022

Description

Based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Night Teacher is a collaboration between lead singer-songwriter Lilly Bechtel and producer and multi-instrumentalist Matt Wyatt. Braiding elements of traditional folk with electro-pop and blues rock, the duo’s songs reflect the work of two musicians who lean into each other with a willingness to be changed by what they hear. Music writer Robb Donker writes of the duo’s 2020 single Even When It’s Bent: "Wyatt's percussive tones sort of feel like they are improvised (whether they are or not), as if he found things around the house to play, which is what (for me) persists in making their texture so organic and interesting… Bechtel's vocal aesthetic works perfectly as a storyteller; there is at once a sage presence in her powerful lilt, but it is also one that feels broken- as hopelessness and hope play a fierce game of tug of war." Since the 2020 release of their debut record Night Teacher, they have won the Music With a Conscience Series, been featured on Women of Substance Radio, and noted by the music magazine Relix as an “artist to pay attention to.”