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Bent, The Everlasting Blink
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1144438
Disk length: 1h 11m 41s (11 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2003
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. King Wisp | 5:10 |
| 2. An Ordinary Day | 4:45 |
| 3. Strictly Bongo | 5:22 |
| 4. Beautiful Otherness | 4:52 |
| 5. Moonbeams | 2:44 |
| 6. So Long Without You | 6:09 |
| 7. Exercise 3 | 4:20 |
| 8. Stay The Same | 5:41 |
| 9. Magic Love | 4:57 |
| 10. The Everlasting Blink | 5:33 |
| 11. Thick Ear | 22:02 |
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Review
Nottingham's Bent are like the funny uncle of the chill-out world--scruffy, eccentric, often embarrassing, but lovable all the same. The Everlasting Blink, the duo's second album, is like a similarly oddball relative; interestingly strange, but not the kind of thing you'd want to live with for any length of time. It's every bit as beautiful as the likes of Lemon Jelly and Zero 7, but with a roughness and fuzziness that makes it impossible to dislike.
In Bent's world, smooth grooves and multicolored soundscapes are replaced by dodgy samples from cheesy thrift-store records, crisp beats, and cheap ambient synth sounds. Their debut album, 2001's Programmed to Love, took this spiky cut-and-paste approach to extremes, with intensely laidback cuts next to odd electronic work-outs. On the other hand, The Everlasting Blink is a much smoother proposition--just as silly and cheesy, but with altogether better production and less freaky weird-outs. It's full of glimmering trinkets of sonic loveliness; gems such as the poppy "Beautiful Otherness" (featuring the Beloved's Jon Marsh on vocals); lead single "Magic Love"; semi-acoustic country sing-a-longs and quirky electronic interludes. For those who've already fallen in love with Bent, this is nothing new; for those yet to convert, it should be a revelation. --Matt Anniss
Other Versions
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Tracks: 11, Disk length: 1h 11m 13s (-1m 32s)
Tracks: 12 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 54s (+5m 13s)
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