The second album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, recorder, piano, organ, keyboards, synths and vocals.
Three guests added strings.
Their 1993 debut album Pablo Honey exploded onto the scene due to the (excellent) hit single Creeps and their excellent live performances. The rest of the album was decent enough indie rock.
The band was not happy about the direction on Pablo Honey. So they changed direction and went for art-rock. The same direction and genre later populated by the likes of Marillion after their change of vocalists.
Art rock it is.... despite of thei band being thrown into the same piece of musical territory as Oasis, Blur, Verve adn Suede. Yes, Britpop. Radiohead hated this label. They still do. The reason is that they never ever was a part of that scene.
The music on The Bends is sophisticated, well crafted and intelligent art-rock. The album includes a couple great songs too. Street Spirit and High And Dry is these two songs.
The overall quality of the songs are good. The music is pretty complicated at time and this is by no mean an indie rock album. The band really delivered some art on this album. Art copied by many bands in the neo-prog genre too.
Check out this album.
3.5 points
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