Track Listing

1. Exercise 1
2. Private Road
3. Cyclons in Love
4. I Love My Man
5. I Remember Johnny
6. Swollen
7. Welly Top Mary
8. A Ribbon For My Hair
9. Invisible Pedestrian
10. A New Wig For Me
11. Always

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38926 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-23
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Now available in the U.S. from Ministry Of Sound USA. Bent garnered critical praise in almost all of the UK press. Fans of Air, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Dusted and the like are sure to love this album. 11 tracks total. 2002.

Amazon.com
Though they've been compared to everyone from Air to Radiohead, Nottingham, England's Bent are mostly defined by their determination to sound like everyone. With that goal in mind, they've stuffed Programmed to Love with an array of samples from vocalists and snippets from jazz, rock, hip-hop, and God knows what else. Stylistically they flirt with downtempo, but just as often the music winds up further afield, embracing trip-hop, ambient, and post-club anthems. "Private Road" mixes a chilly female vocal with cracked samples and a swaying rhythm, but later the album falls into sillier, Lemon Jelly-like territory with "I Remember Johnny." It all works, making for a record that stays fresh with repeated listenings. Besides, Bent have received the ultimate 21st-century compliment already, as the vaguely big-beat thump of "Invisible Pedestrian" has shown up in a car commercial. With that sort of cachet, can mainstream success be far behind? If not, so be it, as Love finds room for more imaginative fun while being more accessible than anything in recent memory. --Matthew Cooke

Customer Reviews

Dreamy and LIght as Air
If you enjoy listening to Spacey yet Etherial music this is the album to get. Although till this day I have not realized this album came out it 2000, I can tell you the year has no effect on the sounds. Yes there are your many riffs and cuts from pieces, well samples of other songs placed here and there all over the album. This is no cause for alarm, the album finish is well put together. I thought at first listen that that is all it would be samples...but upon letting the album play you will hear vocals and lyrics to actual songs. The songs are very melodic and dreamy. I think my overall favorite would have to be " A new wig for me". It sounds repetitive to listen to but it is definitely catchy.

**ps. They have a new album out....2006 though not 07, which I am very surprised is not yet on Amazon...or maybe I have looked deep into it yet. It is also good.

It all came from hearing them in a bar
And before I knew it I was asking the waitress who was that playing on the cd and here we are. Nice, chill, and laid back is the best way to descibe what I get from the disc.

Bent
Music has a great aftertaste. One of the few albums that i can listen to over and over.