Artist: Bent
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Dance
Discography:
Intercept!
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Programmed to Love
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Based out of the sheriff-friendly ithiel Town of Nottingham, England, the duet of Simon Mills and Neil "Nail down" Tolliday met as housemates and formed the airily picturesque Bent -- a group earmarking a varlet somewhere between an early morning Air and a less cacophonic Bentley Rhythm Ace. Sonically, the band's chief influence boils down to becoming disillusioned with house music and hoarding mounds of bad records. Lo-culture samples accessorize jazz, careen, and hip-hop pulses with a rash sense of ironical piss-taking while adolescent titles like the reprobate "Welly Top Mary" give the indication of a striation stressful to raise majesty in even the well-nigh comic of sources. By 2000, Bent released their sleeper -- and warm received -- debut album, Programmed to Love, which helped pave the way for the band earning a nomination for Best Newcomer at the same year's Muzik Awards.
