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クイックビュー {"id":8972070355194,"title":"Ben Seretan \/\/ Youth Pastoral LP [COLOR]","handle":"ben-seretan-youth-pastoral-lp-color","description":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカのインディー作家Ben Seretanが、2025年6月に同国Tiny Enginesからリリースした再発レコードです。（オリジナルは2020年リリース）\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eフォークロック9曲を収録。アイスブルー盤です。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/soundcloud%253Aplaylists%253A1967303224\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tinyengines\" title=\"Tiny Engines\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTiny Engines\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tinyengines\/sets\/ben-seretan-youth-pastoral-deluxe\" title=\"Ben Seretan - Youth Pastoral (Deluxe)\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBen Seretan - Youth Pastoral (Deluxe)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/soaslan\"\u003eこちら \u003c\/a\u003e\/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/soaslan\"\u003ehere \u003c\/a\u003eto see more Tiny Engines releases available at Tobira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12\" ice blue vinyl.\u003cbr\u003eBlue vinyl edition of 300. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e2025 reissue by Tiny Engines feaures new album art \u0026amp; packaging design by Alex Tatusian, + new vinyl master. Originally released in 2020. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003eNOTE: vinyl contains tracks 1-9 from the digital album above. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. 1 Of 03:02\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e2. Power Zone 04:31\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e3. Holding Up The Sun 04:45\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e4. Straight Line 05:37\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e5. Am I Doing Right By You? 07:25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e6. Shadow 03:04\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e7. Call Out Your Name 02:47\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e8. Endless Bounty 02:19\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e9. Bowing Cypress 02:56\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText excerpt by Tiny Engines:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese songs are a congregation, a gathering together - they start as one, Ben's voice solitary above a fingerpicked guitar or a drone, and they expand to include a whole calvary of others, then contract back down. This is the tension - the translation from one person, solitary, alone, to one member of a crowd, one voice in the choir, from one to one of. How goofy it is, really, to sing \"Now I am alone \/ in the power zone\" joined in perfect up-a-third harmony by your beautiful friend. You are not alone! The silhouette was an illusion, a trick of mixing, this whole time Dan and Nico were standing there in the motel room ready to rattle the jingle bells.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFive years after its release it is that feeling of togetherness - secular fellowship? - that marks Youth Pastoral. It's\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e what the album offers best, the delightful sound of a group of people making music together. Which is especially poignant in the long tail of losing vocalist Devra Freelander, a talented sculptor, and beloved human who departed this plane the summer right before they finished the record. She's so alive and vital on this record - she smiled when she sang, you can hear it. Much has befallen the world in the interim, too - the somewhat uncharacteristically sold out Youth Pastoral release show at Union Pool happened in the period between the first identified case of COVID in the area and NYC's total shutdown in March of 2020. It was the one show that version of the band ever got to play. And as it became less and less possible to gather, these songs with their gang vocals and cacophonous, humanistic peaks sounded better and better - was this why the record got so much previously unprecedented attention? Why the first run of the LP has been sold out for years? There was a great shuffle, people moved, studios closed, we lost leases on practice spaces but - in the best possible way - this record endures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut that's what the record came to mean upon release, what about its text? Time spent and once cherished in a Southern California Megachurch is, like, the root cause of Ben's whole thing, and on Youth Pastoral he can't quite figure out what it means to break up with God, to be perhaps alone in the cosmos - piano lessons with the choir accompanist, allowed to play bass in the youth group worship band at 13, still jonesing for that first high, channeling divinity into something that can be played on guitar or sung out en masse. You can hear it in the music - hymnic uplift, prayerful crescendos, synthesizer drones as organ, a group of people all singing around a shared microphone. It's also pretty directly captured in the lyrics, with many mentions of prayer. And in Ben's perspective, the Creator and the astounding, ego-nullifying California coastline are inexorably linked, they are one in the same - the Pacific Ocean was the sight of his baptism, gel in his hair, and braces on his teeth. And so we hear torch songs of youth and of the craggy, deafening cliffs, we feel the youth pastor's suntanned hand on our foreheads guiding us into the threatening brine, and off in the distance the Hare Krishnas of Laguna Beach chant ceaselessly, clanging metal over the sound of a harmonium. 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Originally released in 2020. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003eNOTE: vinyl contains tracks 1-9 from the digital album above. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. 1 Of 03:02\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e2. Power Zone 04:31\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e3. Holding Up The Sun 04:45\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e4. Straight Line 05:37\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e5. Am I Doing Right By You? 07:25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e6. Shadow 03:04\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e7. Call Out Your Name 02:47\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e8. Endless Bounty 02:19\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e9. Bowing Cypress 02:56\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText excerpt by Tiny Engines:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese songs are a congregation, a gathering together - they start as one, Ben's voice solitary above a fingerpicked guitar or a drone, and they expand to include a whole calvary of others, then contract back down. This is the tension - the translation from one person, solitary, alone, to one member of a crowd, one voice in the choir, from one to one of. How goofy it is, really, to sing \"Now I am alone \/ in the power zone\" joined in perfect up-a-third harmony by your beautiful friend. You are not alone! The silhouette was an illusion, a trick of mixing, this whole time Dan and Nico were standing there in the motel room ready to rattle the jingle bells.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFive years after its release it is that feeling of togetherness - secular fellowship? - that marks Youth Pastoral. It's\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e what the album offers best, the delightful sound of a group of people making music together. Which is especially poignant in the long tail of losing vocalist Devra Freelander, a talented sculptor, and beloved human who departed this plane the summer right before they finished the record. She's so alive and vital on this record - she smiled when she sang, you can hear it. Much has befallen the world in the interim, too - the somewhat uncharacteristically sold out Youth Pastoral release show at Union Pool happened in the period between the first identified case of COVID in the area and NYC's total shutdown in March of 2020. It was the one show that version of the band ever got to play. And as it became less and less possible to gather, these songs with their gang vocals and cacophonous, humanistic peaks sounded better and better - was this why the record got so much previously unprecedented attention? Why the first run of the LP has been sold out for years? There was a great shuffle, people moved, studios closed, we lost leases on practice spaces but - in the best possible way - this record endures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut that's what the record came to mean upon release, what about its text? Time spent and once cherished in a Southern California Megachurch is, like, the root cause of Ben's whole thing, and on Youth Pastoral he can't quite figure out what it means to break up with God, to be perhaps alone in the cosmos - piano lessons with the choir accompanist, allowed to play bass in the youth group worship band at 13, still jonesing for that first high, channeling divinity into something that can be played on guitar or sung out en masse. You can hear it in the music - hymnic uplift, prayerful crescendos, synthesizer drones as organ, a group of people all singing around a shared microphone. It's also pretty directly captured in the lyrics, with many mentions of prayer. And in Ben's perspective, the Creator and the astounding, ego-nullifying California coastline are inexorably linked, they are one in the same - the Pacific Ocean was the sight of his baptism, gel in his hair, and braces on his teeth. And so we hear torch songs of youth and of the craggy, deafening cliffs, we feel the youth pastor's suntanned hand on our foreheads guiding us into the threatening brine, and off in the distance the Hare Krishnas of Laguna Beach chant ceaselessly, clanging metal over the sound of a harmonium. [...]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Ben Seretan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Tiny Engines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : TE214\u003c\/p\u003e"}