Bent - Intercept! +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Artist ..... : Bent | | Album ...... : Intercept! | | Year ....... : 2006 | | Label ...... : Godlike & Electric | | Cat.No ..... : GAE CD 001 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Info]-------------------------------+ | | | Genere ..... : Lo-Fi | | Tracks ..... : 11 | | Duration ... : 45:58 min | | Source ..... : CDDA | | Street Date : Oct-09-2006 | | URL ........ : www.discogs.com/release/795528 | | | | Release Size : 89.3 MB | | Ripping Tool : EAC | | Encoder .... : Lame 3.100 -V0 | | Quality .... : VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo | | Rip Date ... : Apr-15-2021 | | | +--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+ | | | 01. Exercise 7 04:45 | | 02. To Be Loved 04:24 | | 03. Stay Out All Night 04:40 | | 04. Breakfast At 80,000 Ft 03:17 | | 05. Tired Of The Show 03:55 | | 06. Wendy, Darling 01:28 | | 07. Waiting For You 05:20 | | 08. As Seen From Space 02:28 | | 09. The Handbrake 05:16 | | 10. Leavin' Me 05:54 | | 11. After All The Love 04:31 | | ----- | | Total: 45:58 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+ | | | ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ | | ██ ██ | | ██ Dupe of: 2006-09-30 Bent-Intercept-GAE001-CD-2006-BPM ██ | | ██ ██ | | ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ | | | | Bent's 4th album Intercept!, picks up after Ariels and further masters | | their blend of eccentric chillout and ethereal house. The secret | | ingredient is an unconventional lushness from the duo's signature | | background effects and array of beats. The tag team of Nail Tolliday | | and Simon Mills split from their record label between albums, and | | consider themselves in a rebirth stage. There are still many aspects | | of the custom Bent sound present, but Intercept! is tinged with more | | sophisticated lyrics and polished beats. Their unusual melodies result | | from a programmable charisma and celestial ambience throughout all of | | their material. | | | | Just as their debut LP, "Programmed to Love", began with "Exercise 1", | | Intercept! begins with #7 in the series, commenced by the familiar old | | man's voice, angelically gliding around a sample of uptempo chillout | | palpitations. "Breakfast at 80,000ft" is a Lemon Jelly-esque spacewalk | | in the morning sun. Wendy darling is a short, stringy melody breathing | | over a light flute that would go well in an evening drive to a party. | | As Seen From Space is the most delicate track, with soft piano flights | | and a virtuous chorale that could even destress Woody Allen before bed | | | | Guest vocals are notably provided by Simian's former frontman, Simon | | Lord, on nearly half of the tracks. While Simian is defunct, its | | essence lives on vicariously through Intercept!. "To Be Loved" is a | | cascading jaunt remniscient of Simians quirky pop. Similarly, "Waiting | | For You" is a jittery, fuzztronic track with altered vocals and an | | erratic guitar loop. Though less uptempo, "Tired of the Show" is a | | beeping, frustrated swing on a relatively thin backdrop. In a calmer | | tense, "The Handbrake" is a rubberized, swooning ballad, sustaining a | | flighty sensation throughout. Simian-esque beats and minimal vocals | | form the base of "After All the Love", highlighted by whistling and | | soothing harmonica to finish the album. | | | | Bent blissfully extend their catalog with Intercept! and continue to | | develop their unique brand of electronica. With a large portion of the | | album featuring the same vocalist, there is perhaps more of continuity | | with this album than in the past, but Bent's idea of continuity is | | still quite vast. The airy synth, digital claps, and staccatoed guitar | | are obvious in several tracks, but in a wide array of melodies and | | tempos. Intercept! is yet another triumph, and Bent remain innovators | | of indie chillout. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+