: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : 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.....: 206kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://bennimusic.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 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 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 39:29 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 61.63 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: 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. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 1 9 \/