Ben Seretan

Ben Seretan never seems to do anything halfway. His records are either filled-to-bursting with sounds, ideas, and personal mythology, erupting into catchy choruses and half-screamed mantras (like the twangy tape hiss of 2016's Bowl of Plums or the Italian insanity of 2024's Allora ) or they’re patient & unfurling, lyric-less & sprawling, like the 24-hour-long monolith My Life's Work a towering album of guitar clouds recorded straight through over three nights in summer, sunset to sunrise. In 2021 he released Cicada Waves, a serene album of piano soli captured amid the riotous sounds of the Appalachian Woods. And nearly every Thursday he publishes a new track and 1,000 words of writing via his long running project My Big Break (curated into the compilations jesus was a slot machine, heaven is a void between load screens, and astral projecting into flavortown). Recently signed to Tiny Engines, the label is proud to reissue 2020's breakthrough album about breaking up and breaking up with God. Five years later, "Youth Pastoral" feels more praiseful and congregational than ever before, songs that match the mythic splendor of a California ocean baptism. The new "Deluxe" edition includes a new run of vinyl, a new master, a handful of never-before-heard demos, outtakes, and b-sides, plus newly commissioned album art by designer Alex Tatusian.