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Blue Bendy
Blue Bendy
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Art Rock, Indie Rock, Psych, Alternative
Clean is Core
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South London art-rock sextet Blue Bendy are releasing ‘Clean is Core’, the final single ahead of the release of their debut EP ‘Motorbike’, which is out on 11 February digitally and on vinyl.
“Clean is core is a song about purity. The idea of being clean and true to a set of beliefs - if it really exists anymore. It’s been said a million times, but it’s a fun topic for some punchline lyricism.” - Blue Bendy (We like John Higgs)
On ‘Motorbike’, Blue Bendy have never sounded more explosive and in control at the same time. At once minimal; everything that you can hear is absolutely necessary, then at other turns they become dense and bright, tearing up all the reference points you thought you might have with a South London band.
When Blue Bendy independently released debut single ‘Suspension’ in 2019, it caught the attention of producer Margo Broom – Fat White Family, Goat Girl – who understood the potential in that single and the pop experimentalism that needed to be conjured from the six piece. 2021’s ‘International’ and ‘Glosso Babel’, the first products of their work with Broom, established Blue Bendy as one of the most exciting bands emerging from South London.
Though crucially different from their South London peers, Nolan points out how that scene has allowed the band to grow and become more interesting, more sharp, more distinct - “I don’t think we would have progressed the way we had if we hadn’t been surrounded by those bands, and watching things shoot up around you. It makes you strive much harder.”
Nolan’s charismatic vocal and a committed interest in lyric writing that has perhaps been absent from British music over the last couple of years. Though you might be able to detect trace DNA of the humour of Malkmus, the romantic absurdity of Bjork and even the kitchen sink despair of Johnny Cash, there is something truly unique that runs through everything Blue Bendy put their hand to.
Defiantly building on their early promise, Blue Bendy are getting weirder and poppier in perfect tandem.
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