Bent

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  • Formed: Nottingham, England
  • Years Active: 2000s

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All Music Guide:

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.

Wikipedia:

The term bent may refer to:

People

Bent is a Danish male first name, a form of Benedict.

Bent Larsen, a Danish chess grandmasterBent Mejding, a Danish actorBent Melchior, a Danish rabbiBent Fabricius-Bjerre, a Danish composerBent (surname)

Places

Bent, Iran, a city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, IranBent District, an administrative subdivision of IranBent (Netherlands), a village in the municipality of Rijnwoude, the NetherlandsBent County, Colorado, United StatesBents, Saskatchewan, Canada (Ghost town)

Arts and entertainment

Bent (play), a 1979 play by Martin ShermanBent (film), a 1997 film by Sean Mathias based on play BentBent (TV series), an NBC romantic television comedy seriesBent (band), an electronica duo from EnglandBent (song), a song by Matchbox TwentyBent (magazine)

Science and technology

Bent molecular geometryBent (unit), a unit of action equal to 1 amp^2 times 1 secondBent (structural), a repeated cross-sectional sub-structure of a timber frameBent, past-tense adjective for a bend (guitar)Bent, a plant properly named Agrostis capillarisBent, a common name for Marram grass, Ammophila arenariaBent, a structural frame similar to a tower used to support a conveyor gallery, harbor structure or railroad trestleBent, the insignia of the engineering honor society Tau Beta PiBent, a recumbent bicycle. It is popular in the Netherlands and some other countries as a commuters' bike