Night Teacher is the project of lead singer-songwriter Lilly Bechtel, whose haunting voice and piercing lyrics combine with producer Matt Wyatt to create a world that orbits between experimental doom-folk and electro-groove.

Since the 2020 release of their debut record Night Teacher, the group has been featured on NPR, won the Music With a Conscience Series, and noted by the music magazine Relix as an “artist to pay attention to.” Music writer Robb Donker describes Night Teacher’s 2021 single ‘Even When It’s Bent’: "Wyatt's percussive tones sort of feel like they are improvised, as if Wyatt found things around the house to play with, 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 spring of 2021 Night Teacher has begun to tour the U.S., and in April 2023 their music video, Desert Psalm, made by an independent, all-female film crew in the south of Texas, was featured in American Dance Festival “Movies by Movers” and was awarded Best Song in the Experimental Film and Music Video festival.

In a time when so many of us are seeking what power might emerge from grief, Night Teacher’s music thrives inside that question, that ‘fierce tug of war’ between hope and hopelessness, and in the process creates a music that offers its own kind of education: exploring what beauty may be drawn from shadow, and what melodies might be sung only after it doesn’t all work out.

In February 2023 the group released their latest EP Dear Ellen and are currently working on their second full-length album. You can stay tuned to Night Teacher on Spotify, Bandcamp  and iTunes, follow them on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, and join their mailing list here.