American Pancake Review of 'Even When It's Bent'

Excerpts from the lovely review by Robb Donker in American Pancake:

"Night Teacher, the experimentally-laced music project of Blue Ridge Mountain poet Lilly Bechtel and multi-instrumentalist Matt Wyatt, is artfully minded. Even their image looks like a Sally Mann photo and holds within it a sense of mystery, performance, and melancholia. Their new track ‘Even When It’s Bent’ holds all these things and more.

Wyatt's percussive tones sort of feel like they are improvised (whether they are or not), as if the duo 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.

I know I will return often to ‘Even When It’s Bent’ and I think you will too.’