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Artist......: Benni
Album.......: The Return
Label.......: Goner Records
Genre.......: Electronic
Catnr.......: 153GONE
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2019-03-01
Str.date....: 2018-06-29
Quality.....: 648 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://bennimusic.bandcamp.com
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1. The Return Pt. 1 5:02
2. Ancient Plains 3:55
3. The Maze 3:41
4. Final Take-off 0:55
5. The Return Pt. 2 6:08
6. Dance of the Eridani 4:09
7. In the Shadows 3:09
8. Master's Dream 6:58
9. End of Light 5:32
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\ / ________ Runtime 39:29
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,: Benny DivineÆs impressive musical CV includes quantities such as :,
: The Gary Wrong Group, Wizzard Sleeve and NashvilleÆs prolific :
:' purveyorÆs of Foghat-pop, Natural Child, but it was just a ':
,: short year ago that Goner gave wide release to the BENNI debut :,
: album, I & II, which launched the new sub-genre we now know as :
:' ôHi-NRG New Ageö and had its creator casually glancing over his ':
,: shoulder for the rumored mobs of outraged Skyfax, Mannheim :,
: Steamroller and Windham Hill Records loyalists that could never :
:' quite catch up to BENNI live performances, as they were not ':
,: listed in back issues of TV Guide and ReaderÆs Digest: Large :,
: Print Editions. Whereas I & II was, as its title explicitly :
:' implicates, the combination of two previously-released ':
,: cassettes, The Return is a 9-track song-cycle composed for the :,
: full-length format. :
:' ':
,: Imagine an alternative historical narrative in which BENNI :,
: exists not as a source of soundtrack afterthought, rather as the :
:' initial spark of inspiration for an entire 70s sub-genre of ':
,: gritty crime and science fiction films. The Return causes its :,
: own type of Mandela Effect on the listener. ôThe Return Pt 1ö, a :
:' track with more going on in its nooks and crannies than the ':
,: 1986 payola investigations, would backdrop an imaginary :,
: five-minute dialogue-free scene of nothing but Bruce Dern slowly :
:' driving the empty 3am streets of an unnamed urban landscape. ':
,: And what the hell is that rather dexterous solo during the final :,
: minuteÆs climax? A guitar? Synth? Who cares? ôAncient Plainsö :
:' is a foreboding mood piece sans percussion that conjures an ':
,: impending time hop or Vietnam flashback. ôThe Mazeö brings back :,
: the mid-tempo beats but retains the living-in-the-rearview :
:' ominence and must have scored the sequence in which our stoic ':
,: alcoholic ass-whooper realizes the boss man double crossed him. :,
: Album centerpiece ôThe Return Pt 2ö dispenses with a short :
:' ôshitÆs about to go downö intro then locks into a fully ':
,: fleshed-out gem of electro-pop with its grand swaths of :,
: sandpaper synth, dour talkbox vocal hook, nuanced burble and a :
:' pulsing minimal beat that hits hard enough to split a ':
,: starfighter. As for how it might or might not have operated in a :,
: fan-fiction soundtrack capacity...who knows...maybe weÆve lost :
:' our thread here, but ôDance of the Eridaniö is a major-key (I ':
,: guess?) intermission of upbeat positivity and in keeping with :,
: the theme of BENNI album art, seemingly an ode to something :
:' going down in the 32-planet constellation referenced in its ':
,: title. The seven-minute ôMasterÆs Dreamö settles the listener :,
: down with its ebb and flow of layered synths. ItÆs a calculated :
:' setup for ôThe End of Lightö, which drops the curtain on The ':
,: Return with another example of golden synth-pop songwriting and :,
: experimentation that belongs next to the best of early :
:' Numan/Tubeway Army and the still-overlooked greatness of ':
,: pre-success Human League or O.M.D. :,
: :
:' ItÆs a strong sophomore effort from Devine, where the fuzzy ':
,: electro-pop chops are as impressive as the spacey burps and :,
: gurgles that made his debut so gripping. :
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