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Artist:
BENOIT & SERGIO
Title:
Midnight People
Label:
SPECTRAL SOUND
Format:
12"
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
SPC 098EP
Benoit & Sergio
construct dusky, romantic spaces in which dance and pop music conspire in hushed tones.
Midnight People
, the Washington, DC duo's first single on Spectral Sound, is a noir anthem for heartbroken hedonists, a tech-house ode to furtive glances and bad decisions. Handclaps and pianos, melodramatic synthesizers and wafer-thin vocal samples push the beat along, but it's the tracks' air of desperation and psychedelic dread that makes
Midnight People
such a reality-defying listen. Includes two careening techno remixes by
Technasia
.
Artist:
BENOIT & SERGIO
Title:
Let Me Count The Ways
Label:
SPECTRAL SOUND
Format:
12"
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
SPC 104EP
Having flexed their synth-pop muscles on releases for DFA and Visionquest, DC duo
Benoit & Sergio
return to Spectral Sound for a victory lap around the dancefloor. "Let Me Count the Ways" is the perfect, hands-in-the-air final anthem of the evening. "Let Me Count the Ways (Autumn Version)" strips the beat back to its bare essentials and builds it up again over nearly 12 minutes, recalling
Arthur Russell
's more minimal moments.
Artist:
BENOIT & SERGIO
Title:
What I've Lost
Label:
THESONGSAYS (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
SONG 002EP
"The second release on thesongsays seems to find what we might call 'romantic techno' in a happier place. Sort of. While Bruno Pronsato's
The Make Up The Break Up
focused on the darker side of romance, Benoit & Sergio's
What I've Lost
raises a similar question: can we ever be really satisfied? Benoit & Sergio chose 'Full Grown Man,' as the opener. The bravado of the initial vocals -- 'I Need A Lady To Understand I'm A Full Grown Man' -- references the masculine posturing of, say, Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love,' but also calls attention to the vulnerability and neediness of this masculinity. And when we are seduced into drinking a little wine at the track's midpoint, we realize that this seduction is a mere maneuver to avoid a deeper loneliness. If, lyrically, 'Full Grown Man' points to certain emotional complexities, so, too, does the music: somber synth lines overlay short, brassy stabs, as the intricate sequencing shifts its moods like so many teenage boys. Floating atop a bassline befitting Galaxie 500 or Yo La Tengo, 'What I've Lost' is too beautiful and moving to confine within the often all too arid or hyper places of dance music. 'What I've Lost' belongs to the dance floor at the end of the night, to the slow dance, to the one who might one day betray you."
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