BEN BENNETT - Answers LP Emo They say the third time

They say the third time is the charm

with gargantuan bass thuds and deft syncopations capable of transforming a song"s landscape in an instant

Neither performances nor remixes

and largely through improvisation

eventually passing away while on stage in Russia in 1994

BEN BENNETT - Answers LP Emo They say the third timeI often think about a video that Ben made in the mid 2000s, shot in profile with his shadow cast on a dimly lit Ohio punk house wall. In the video, Ben emits, intones, and then barks yeah relentlessly for an uninterrupted fifteen minutes. He pushes his reedy, anonymous voicewhich in conversation conveys a kind of gentle bemusementinto guttural terrain that flirts with overtone singing (or screeching). The gesture feels raw and spontaneous, suspended