Benoit & Sergio have an unmistakably melancholy take on house music. Their grooves may be keyed to marathon after-parties, but their lyrics are steeped in decadence and regret. With their long-awaited debut album, they fully embrace a sense of loss, right down to a title that seems to allude to the gulf that opened up between their hedonistic breakout years, between 2009 and 2011, and 2022’s Lost Decade, which follows five fallow years in their discography. The D.C./Berlin duo’s music has always been sleek, but it’s never been worn as smooth as it is here; house and minimal techno have largely been replaced by ethereal downbeat and aerated ambient pop, and skeletal funk basslines have dissolved into a warm sea of vocoders. The opener, “Its Enough You Mention Me”, is little more than drifting voice and weightless dub-techno chords; woozy and prismatic, “Even Viridian” is New Wave projected through a particle beam decelerator. Not everything is so delicate; the title track fires up the smoke machine and splits the difference between Daft Punk’s flickering disco and Hot Chip’s dreamy balladry. Best of all might be “Minds & Drums”, whose ruminative pianos have all the weight of a snapshot you can’t bear to part with, even though it hurts to look at it. Bittersweet vibes have rarely felt so exquisite.