Rise and Fall of a Decade

Rise and Fall of a Decade is an internationally acclaimed French band trio founded in 1988 by Thierry Sintoni, Pierre-François Maurin-Malet and Sandy Casado.

Rise and Fall of a Decade
Origin	France
Genres	Electronica, downtempo, ambient, trip hop, dreampop, ethereal wave
Years active	1988–2008
Labels	Lively Art, Single KO, Hyperium, in/scène, Black Rain, Other Voices Records
Members	Thierry Sintoni Sandy Casado
Past members	Pierre-François Maurin-Malet
Website	http://www.riseandfall.info

Since 1997, their music videos have been directed by Nemo Sandman.

In May 2007 Pierre-François died of cancer. A tribute CD was recorded.

Since March 2016, Sandy and Thierry are forming a new duo called Girls Like You.^[1]

Discography

• Love It or Leave It (11/2008), double album including A Tribute to Pierre-François
• Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (07/2007), best of album^[2]
• You or Sidney - Re-Release (05/2007)
• Noisy but empty - Re-Release (05/2007)
• Forget the twentieth century (1997)
• Rise and Fall of a Decade - Re-Release (1995)
• Mistake EP (1995)
• Ubu Reine, live album (1995)
• You or Sidney (1994)
• Noisy but empty (1992)
• An evening with Bernard EP (1991), recording of their Black Session on Radio France. Black Sessions are the French equivalent to John Peel Sessions
• Rise and Fall of a Decade (1990)

External links

• Official Site
• Rafoad on Myspace
• Rafoad on Last.fm
• Girls Like You page on Facebook