![News Added Apr 23, 2015 The version of indie-pop Bent Denim presents on Romances You is uniquely modern and entirely their own. It’s a drowsy, depressive sort of music, the sound of a technology-addled imagination anxiously drifting through that space between dreams and waking life. Ben Littlejohn and Dennis Sager spell out that sentiment from […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/rsz_a2560044042_10-320x320.jpg "Bent Denim : Romances You")
The version of indie-pop Bent Denim presents on Romances You is uniquely modern and entirely their own. It’s a drowsy, depressive sort of music, the sound of a technology-addled imagination anxiously drifting through that space between dreams and waking life. Ben Littlejohn and Dennis Sager spell out that sentiment from the start — “I’m stuck in daydreams and sex dreams and reality, I can’t keep it straight” — and the music maintains it throughout, casting melodic mumbled sighs against a sonic environment that gorgeously conjures that sense of mixed-up longing. There’s a true synthesis here, combining shades of K Records twee, the ornately rootsy chamber-pop of Wilco and Sparklehorse, Grandaddy’s dystopian prog-pop, Drive soundtrack ’80s noir, and DIY electro-pop into a timely vehicle for timeless quarter-life concerns.
