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Bent is a two-piece downtempo act from Nottingham, England consisting of Neil “Nail” Tolliday and Simon Mills. They gained critical acclaim from their debut album, Programmed to Love, in 2000.
The song “Invisible Pedestrian” of the album “Programmed to Love” was featured in an Absolut Vodka commercial that aired in 2003, and more famously, a U.S. Volkswagen bus commercial in the late 90’s. Also aired on TV advertisement was “Private Road” also from “Programmed to Love” in the “Bank of Carlsberg” clip in December 2001.
Programmed to Love was followed by “The Everlasting Blink” (2002), “Ariels” (2004) and recently with “Intercept!” in October of 2006. This album has seen the band move to a more disco-pop inspired sound
Aah, the difficult, yet all important third album: the first could go either way, but having proven themselves the second was a test to show if the first wasn’t a fluke; but the third, well that’s a whole different story…
Thankfully for Bent, in Ariels they’ve nothing to worry about. Joining Programmed To Love and The Everlasting Blink on the coffee table is another worthy companion full of surprises and enriched by beautifully lush ‘n’ dreamy numbers, like the Carpenters-esque “Sunday 29th” sung by longstanding cohort Kathy Heath. Less overtly electronic than what’s gone before, here songs and acoustic instruments replace synths and samples, along with some quite captivating vocals.
The song “
Invisible Pedestrian” of the album “Programmed to Love” was featured in an Absolut Vodka commercial that aired in 2003, and more famously, a U.S. Volkswagen bus commercial in the late 90’s. Also aired on TV advertisement was “Private Road” also from “Programmed to Love” in the “Bank of Carlsberg” clip in December 2001.
Programmed to Love was followed by “The Everlasting Blink” (2002), “Ariels” (2004) and recently with “Intercept!” in October of 2006. This album has seen the band move to a more disco-pop inspired sound
Aah, the difficult, yet all important third album: the first could go either way, but having proven themselves the second was a test to show if the first wasn’t a fluke; but the third, well that’s a whole different story…
Thankfully for Bent, in Ariels they’ve nothing to worry about. Joining Programmed To Love and The Everlasting Blink on the coffee table is another worthy companion full of surprises and enriched by beautifully lush ‘n’ dreamy numbers, like the Carpenters-esque “Sunday 29th” sung by longstanding cohort Kathy Heath. Less overtly electronic than what’s gone before, here songs and acoustic instruments replace synths and samples, along with some quite captivating vocals.
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Programmed to Love
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The Everlasting Blink
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Ariels
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Intercept!
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niqart wrote:
Programmed to Love has 4 variations of tracklist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_to_Love So we have missing 5 tracks: Irritating Noises, A New Wig for Me, Chocolate Wings, Toothless Gibbon и Welly Top Mary
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ticklemeelbow wrote:
♥band♥
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dangitbobby wrote:
Sunday Boy will forever be my love song
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Urbanov wrote:
lol "band" [2]
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corvidtabard wrote:
lol "band"
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a-ost wrote:
Check http://www.facebook.com/bentworld for updates and links to unreleased material and demos! :)
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m-saIami wrote:
good band
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Dom1s wrote:
One of the best bands ever
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youlounis wrote:
One of the best bands ever, and yes, new album is needed
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myth7791 wrote:
I want Downloaded For Love!!!
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Bentmills wrote:
Hey lovelies - good news - we're re-releasing our albums again on iTunes, and furthermore we both have new albums out, working by ourselves! My Napoleon album has a few previews here: http://soundcloud.com/simon-mills/sets/napoleon-tunes/ Coming very soon :-)
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a-ost wrote:
Who want to have a Downloaded For Love album on CD please vote here!!! Let the dream come true - with enough amount of votes record lable can release it!!!
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Von_Teese wrote:
Bent – Always (Ashley Beedle's Mahavishnu remix) <3
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zeergoed wrote:
Bent (Simon Mills) are now on Twitter... @Bent_UK http://twitter.com/Bent_UK
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AbOD7 wrote:
silent life & stay out all night ♥
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Sitko99 wrote:
ou ye@h ! ♥ ❤ ❥ ❣ ❦ ❧
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ozeanherz wrote:
brilliant sounds!
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niqart wrote:
new album is needed [3]
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cinnamondearie wrote:
<3 <3 <3
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Bentmills wrote:
Thank you each and every one of you for all the kind comments left here. I was very pleasantly surprised as I don't really use this site, and although one shouldn't listen to their press/critics, I very much appreciate it. :-)
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What we're doing!
25 May 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/bentworld
Hello! We've been very busy on solo projects - you can find
us hereNail, and all his GFI goodness amongst other goodies
www.soundcloud.com/neil-tollidayorMillsy - a new album under the
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Poram and Priyasalvi added Bent to their libraries. yesterday evening
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