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Romances You

by Bent Denim

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ndaynan
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ndaynan Top listened to album of 2016 on Spotify. Great songs to cry to lol. Favorite track: Key Lime Pie.
Desmond Cai
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Desmond Cai The lo-fi sounds, detached yet emotional vocals, and beautiful lyricism makes this the album of life. Favorite track: Often.
shaun rogan
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shaun rogan Filling a Mark Linkous/The NewYear shaped hole in my life is this understated slightly unsettling piece of work by Bent Denim. True outsider material. Get acquainted. Favorite track: Good Night's Sleep.
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cracos Muchachos, no suelo hacer esto pero su trabajo me introdujo al maravilloso mundo del Indie. Más específicamente al Lo-Fi. Por ello se los agradezco profundamente.
Buenas Vibras,
desde Bogotá, Colombia. Favorite track: Key Lime Pie.
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1.
it was a green morning you told me in a cab you fucked me in mourning just like that dream i’d already had i was a father for a few weeks but you wouldn’t let me i was just your fodder for a good night sleep Im stuck in daydreams and sex dreams and reality i cant keep straight like you saying you wanted 2 ½ kids with a white picket fence my erratic heart rate has started to inflate and i don't know when it will stop in this cab i'm aware of the blood in my ears but its been there all these years i was a father for a few weeks but you wouldn’t let me i was just your fodder for a good night sleep and when i think of those booze filled brunches the sour aftertaste of your lipstick on my face i think how kids mostly hate me and how i wont make that much money
2.
Caitlin 01:01
Caitlin, do you like me? I’ve stayed up all night typing your name into search engines looking at two dimensions of your perfect face and body having brunch with friends and not me previous jobs and diplomas history of lymphoma
3.
when you go to sleep i’m gonna try on your clothes with both my eyes closed just so i can know what it feels to be inside you you’re a city of gardens guarded but unopposed i’m watering your ankles and sowing your toes i’m patient farmers boy i’m attempting to kill off all your favorite characters that city of gardens was savannah and when i left it was frozen in amber like my parents friends i envy them all the same routines in their brainstem and i should get to know your bearings better all i know is the neon south i’m attempting to kill off all your favorite characters
4.
Key Lime Pie 03:38
You threw up in a limousine on the way back from Bourbon Street on the night of your bridal shower you told me then that you loved me in a drunk dial like we were both 18 i said i missed you then the line died you got to name your sister’s horse where to live when your kin had run their course thick slice of divorce served like key lime pie favorite weatherman gave it to you straight that one summer of one hundred and eight you didn’t say goodbye just like you never ate breakfast take me back to you back then i’m not who i was back then in the summer air i binge to the thought of you back then i’m not who i was back then the breakfast sat when you left on the table for days and days i knew sometime you’d come back i just didn’t know when i tried to call ann marie maid of honor always made fun of me back in those days when you were mine
5.
Off Chance 02:45
get me out of this place take me back to the wonder years those mystery midnight rides before you fed the undertow mistletoe & lights that christmas eve came back to me and i'll be lost for a while hoping ill protect you through the lowlands and i'll be right here on the off chance that you still stop by in my shadow and creak through doorways and tilt picture frames if you had an extra life would you fuck it up with dope and white lies just like i did mine i’m a monster in your apartment and when i disappear into molecules will you breath me in so i can be with you in some way i need you ill protect you through the lowlands and i'll be right here on the off chance that you still stop by in my shadow and creak through doorways and tilt picture frames
6.
China Doll 02:49
it was a misfire, a mistake it doesn't weigh down on me like it does for you feeling all punch drunk in the backseat of a yellow cab 1000 miles away from you lost in the daylight of a hotel room pouring liquor all over some girl i knew you knew it was a misfire, a mistake it doesn't weigh down on me like it does for you hit me like you mean it hit me fair square in the jaw so everyone can see it tell them all just what you saw hit you like i need it you’re my china doll and i risked it all but i guess i can’t see it so hit me cause i need it
7.
i’ve been kissing your shadow for about three days i forgot to behave simply made it up along the way worried your mind hasn’t had enough to eat today never heard a single word in my sleep i just lip synced and washed pieces of myself down your kitchen sink i’m older than magic but still taste like dirt so give me your silence or i’ll steal all your copper suffer your anxiety and experience your nightmares next to you i’m proud to call you home i don’t remember much before you we’re covalent sharing everything walked into your life because you left the door open you could be my new scar if you make good marks this could be a false start full of watertight dead ends do you believe in agency i dont believe in me if but for you you were born in a factory and you were a mystery but open too when i grow up i wanna be unemployed so i can spend all day playing with your toys
8.
Often 03:30
chunks of marble that mean a lot to somebody gummy bears stuck to your naked body broken babies in boston i think of you often your perfect like a red head at sunset this microphone’s gonna leave one of us upset i still hear your organs working when it gets too quiet cannibalizing whatever you mean to me systematic destroying everything remembering the daydreams and writing down a few things in audubon park what's it like to go wedding cake tasting? you, that redhead at sunset calling from a payphone telling me you're upset clouding over daydreams leaving them unread in a notebook taken by me from your dead dad what's it like to go wedding cake tasting? what’s it like to go?
9.
Jesus Called 02:19
are you fit for trial feeling like a vending machine in your apartments lobby how many shoes did you lose in the last move wearing an engagement ring just for attention it seems i didn’t notice the weight that you gained over easter break jesus called he said you should let me in
10.
16th Ward 04:30
woke up in a ranch house only remember turning off the lights whispering about stage fright blond hair & black lace checkerboard linoleum under my feet bent over the kitchen sink closing my eyes this was a daydream of businessmen alike a stable family life tv dinners & a hot wife lived by a graveyard back in the sixteenth ward we were having a good day our neighbors buried themselves in our front yard they named their dog dixie flinched when she barked at me when we used the back door lock it we’ve been robbed before i’m stealing your cable and using your wifi stole some bank statements left town started a new life

about

Ben — "This album was crafted in numerous spaces over a few years —two dorm rooms (a single and a double), a mansion’s foyer, my brother’s living room in New Orleans, my childhood bedroom, a backhouse, my friend Robbie’s extra bedroom, Dennis’ last three rented bedrooms in New Orleans, and a rented bedroom in Nashville. All of these spaces have imprinted a different sonic character on the parts of the songs. The reflections of these rooms combine to create an album without any real sense of place."

Dennis — "motion- limos and cars
algiers, uptown, irish channel
sense of place
Living in New Orleans is a little like living through the rise and fall of the Roman Empire."

credits

released April 28, 2015

Manager — Connor Crawford — connorbcrawford@gmail.com
PR — Caitlin Pasko — caitlin@drunkenpiano.com
Radio — Tyler Freese — tyler@co-sign.com

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Bent Denim New Orleans, Louisiana

Bent Denim builds beautiful, narrative- driven songs by swapping tracks over email between their respective home bases of
Nashville, New York, and New Orleans.

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