Search - Artist/Band: Bent

• Band Name: Bent
• Formed: 1999
• Originated From: Nottingham, England
• Decades Active: 2000
• Genre: Electronica
• Styles: Club/Dance, House, Left-Field House, Alternative/Indie Rock, Ambient Pop
• Moods: Bright, Humorous, Hypnotic, Party/Celebratory, Quirky, Whimsical, Cheerful, Relaxed, Stylish, Sweet, Trippy, Freewheeling, Druggy, Silly, Soothing, Bittersweet, Dreamy, Ethereal, Happy, Sophisticated, Yearning

Title	Release
Best of Bent	08/18/2009
Regroovespective: The Very Best of Bent	08/04/2009
Intercept! WA	10/09/2006
Later (Remix Album)	09/13/2005
Ariels WA	10/12/2004
The Everlasting Blink WA	03/03/2003
Programmed to Love WA	09/05/2000

Based out of the sheriff-friendly town of Nottingham, England, the duo of Simon Mills and Neil "Nail" Tolliday met as housemates and formed the flippantly picturesque Bent -- a group earmarking a page somewhere between an early morning Air and a less cacophonic Bentley Rhythm Ace. Sonically, the band's primary influence boils down to becoming disillusioned with house music and hoarding mounds of bad records. Lo-culture samples accessorize jazz, rock, and hip-hop pulses with a heady sense of ironic piss-taking while adolescent titles like the perverted "Welly Top Mary" give the indication of a band trying to resurrect majesty in even the most risible of sources. By 2000, Bent released their sleeper -- and warmly 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. ~ Dean Carlson, All Music Guide