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Wendy Eisenberg’s newest album Viewfinder (American Dreams) oscillates between song forms and improvised excursions. Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice give their first duo performance at The Lab to open the night.

The first sounds of Wendy Eisenberg’s Viewfinder—two guitar strings, recursively plucked; tentative, hiccuping drums; a trombone testing its brassy stance against the song’s nervous undercurrent—creep in, tidal, echoing opener “Lasik’s” ambivalent ode to optical transformation. “Got my eyes fixed up,” Eisenberg begins, “I stayed awake and watched my eyes grow stronger; watched everything get clearer.” On the second syllable of clear-er, an abrupt vocal downshift, like a skip in the vinyl, or as if their newfound clarity has briefly faltered. It’s a minor detail, but that’s the sort of artist Eisenberg is—“healing takes forever,” they reminds us—and the kind of musicianship on display for the duration of Viewfinder.

Phantasy & Reality is the latest from Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice, following 2022’s To Live & Die In Space & Time. The resulting album is spacious, patient and gorgeous, equal parts delicate and expansive. The textural quality of the work is at the forefront as well, with field recordings and the physicality of the instruments they play providing a grounding force for these floating compositions. Like the title implies, Lynn & Cole’s sound and vision straddles two blurry worlds: "Phantasy & Reality."