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Blue Bendy

The British band presents their new album, writed with uncommon poignancy about the nature of art, ambition, and success.

Saturday

Museum

About

Building on the momentum of their 2022 EP ‘Motorbike’, Blue Bendy are stretching out into vast new sonic terrain. Their following two singles, ‘Mr. Bubblegum’ – a joyously intricate piece of experimental guitar pop – and the frenetic, propulsive yet incredibly deft sprawl of ‘Cloudy’, saw the band reach new heights creatively. Of the former, The Guardian enthused: ‘indie is riddled with addled, verbose frontmen right now, but none so rapturous as Blue Bendy’s Arthur Nolan: here he dances all over splayed post-rock and micro-cataclysms.’

Having toured as main support for Squid and Cola, as well as playing packed out tents at festivals like End of the Road and Green Man, Blue Bendy have struck a balance between being obviously skilled musicians, writing complex, layered, overlapping and ambitious compositions, while also utilising space, breadth, and restraint. Their music is bursting with dynamism, exploring push-pull dynamics that result in something ceaselessly unpredictable. The end product is a something rare for a new band: as experimental as it is confident and assured, as tender as it is visceral, as quiet as it is loud, as bloody as it is teary.