yeah it's a masterpiece, i put it on a couple times a year and it always kills me. between b&s and those early nicolas jaar singles there was some really beautiful airy tactile post-minimal house in the early 2010s, for dilettantes like me who only find out about music thru ilx at least
― flopson, Saturday, 20 February 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
from their new-ish EP; I don't think there's ever gonna be an LP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QxTU8sshoU
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
an album Lost Decade is apparently finally on the way
― ufo, Thursday, 16 September 2021 03:14 (two years ago) link
!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 16 September 2021 08:19 (two years ago) link
wow
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 September 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
Appropriate album title
― Tim F, Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
My baby does K all decade.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
follow your principles
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGkZlqwy8V4
nice textures but I hope they're not moving completely away from the dancefloor and into stadium indietronica
― boxedjoy, Monday, 13 June 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
Apparently there IS gonna be an actual LP from these guys
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 June 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/benoit-and-sergio-announce-debut-album-13-years-after-their-first-release-share-new-song-listen/
they've finally announced it properly
― ufo, Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:20 (one year ago) link
https://benoitandsergio.bandcamp.com/album/lost-decade
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:46 (one year ago) link
Back in 2012, when I was describing their ace track "Lipstick and Lace" to friends, I assumed their name was pronounced "Ben-wah and Saire-heo", like some sort of French/Spanish crossover. Is that in any way correct? Or is merely as the English phonetics would indicate?
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Friday, 12 August 2022 04:43 (one year ago) link
out today, sounding good
― nxd, Friday, 26 August 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
great album, soothing and lush
― nxd, Friday, 26 August 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
Why are they seemingly so ignored / unknown?
― Evan, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
I thought the album was really underwhelming, one of the biggest disappointments of 2022, especially after it taking so long to arrive
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
Shame you felt that way. Guess it helps that they're pretty new to me. Years of anticipation is hard to live up to.
― Evan, Friday, 20 January 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
Ah, makes sense, Evan!
Many of the rest of us have been awaiting that album for a decade, so when expectation is building on the back of “Walk and Talk,” “Boy Trouble,” “Adjustments,” etc …
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 20 January 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
“Lost Decade,” the title track, is my sole keeper from this record, and it isn’t close to my favorites of theirs overall
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 20 January 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
Just surprising then that there wasn't a discussion. Though I remember seeing a disappointed comment somewhere that isn't here. Still!
― Evan, Friday, 20 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
“Principles” still completely blows me away. Do people not care about that one for some reason?
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 20 January 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
I hadn’t been aware of “Principles” somehow. It’s pretty good!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 21 January 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
“Principles” is great, though I do think they peaked early where with “Full Grown Man” and “What I’ve Lost”.
― Tim F, Saturday, 21 January 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link