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just writing to share a ~new song~ and a really great interview about the new record, everything, and all the everything that’s crammed into the new record - - enjoy “Climb the Ladder” - the third and final single from ALLORA and this chat between me and Ian Cohen (who reviewed Youth Pastoral for Pitchfork in 2020):

Ben Seretan Interview: 'Allora,' 'Youth Pastoral,' Italy, Leaving The Church, & More

Hear new single "Climb The Ladder" and read our interview about 'Allora,' the New York artist's "insane Italy record."

“Climb the Ladder” is available on Bandcamp (as are digital / vinyl pre-orders):

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(click the link / rave trees to listen)

My Big Breakveiled in the cheesecloth of exhaustion

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(click the link / church sign to listen)

My Big Breakstatues of goblins and gargoyles

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(click the link / texas wildflowers to listen)

My Big Breakhe's so much more vocal in his dreams

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(click the link / vestigial outlet to listen)

My Big Breakon which my choo choo chugs

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(click the link / fogged out Rockaways to listen)

My Big Breaksugar on the breeze

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today the second single from ALLORA - my forthcoming “insane Italian album” - is out for your fist-pumping listening enjoyment

“Bend” started like many songs do: hungover as hell wearily seated at an out-of-tune upright piano. In the hands of this mighty power trio, though, in those brief but crammed days we had in the studio, it turned from a headache prayer to a jubilant, threatening promise, a sunflower poem, a muscular disco catharsis

the track is premiering on Paste today and of course you can find it, stream it, and pre-order it in all the usual places.

Hi all - - -

I don’t have the time/energy/etc. this week to pull off a new track and some writing however I did want to blast out one final earnest invitation to the thing that is my work this week -

24-HOUR DRONE happens this Saturday in Hudson, New York at a place called Basilica Hudson. I work there and after being a longtime fan of this festival I am now amazingly one of the people working to organize it and pull it off - -

It’s a deep, challenging, special music event that is quite unlike anything else - hundreds of people sprawled out on concrete slumbering as the music unfurls.

good morning ~

(click the link / thumbs up toad to listen)

My Big Breakthe yoke of the yearn

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(click the link / carpeted congregation to listen)

My Big Breakthe glint of the crystal knife

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(click the link / bleeding hearts to listen)

My Big Breaka rare primordial elation

buongiorno ragazzi ~

writing to you on a Tuesday from Mexico City with some extremely cool news - - -

ALLORA - my long awaited "insane Italian record" of legend will be arriving this summer in a vivid LP edition via newly revitalized label Tiny Engines. Incredibly, it is the first "Ben Seretan" album of songs and guitar in over four years.

recorded over 72 manic hours in the hills above Venice in 2019, ALLORA is a document, an artifact, a relic of another world. It shows our intrepid, sweaty power trio (me + Nico + Dan) tearing joy free from the jaws of despair and making a tremendous racket while doing it.

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(click the link / arboreal crown to listen)

My Big Breakyes many beers crushed

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(click the link / snakes on the trail to listen)

My Big Breakat least somewhat fun and/or enjoyable

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(click the link / oil spot in the driveway to listen)

My Big Breakletting the freaks flop around in the spotlights

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(click the link / tugboat to listen)

My Big Breakthey wanna hear another heater

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(click the link / canal to listen)

My Big Breaktheir kindness makes it bloom

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(click the link / beheaded man to listen)

My Big BreakI awake to the clanging of bells

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(click the link / painted ceiling to listen)

My Big Breakfill the bellows of your belly with their mechanical wings

good afternoon ~

(click the link / glorious river sunset to listen)

My Big Breakthe width of my smile