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Based out of the sheriff-friendly town of Nottingham, England, the duo of Simon Mills (<a href="spotify:artist:6nCO5BItmfngt3do4Aae0b" data-name="One Half Of Bent">One Half Of Bent</a>) and Neil "Nail" Tolliday met as housemates and formed the flippantly picturesque Bent -- a group earmarking a page somewhere between an early morning <a href="spotify:artist:1c0wlIJWID8ghPnKsqJDSu" data-name="Air">Air</a> and a less cacophonic <a href="spotify:artist:28EZh7WvdbWwfOrf5lkvCk" data-name="Bentley Rhythm Ace">Bentley Rhythm Ace</a>. 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, Rovi
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