Bending Hectic

by The Smile

Bending Hectic cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 20 June 2023
  • Label: XL
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 8:03
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Clocking in at eight minutes, 'Bending Hectic' begins as a sparse, anxiety-inducing post-rock narrative about a precarious car ride. The composition slowly winds its dissonant strings tighter before erupting into a colossal, heavy psych guitar climax.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, existential, melodic, crescendo, tense

Tracklist

  1. Bending Hectic (8:03)

Credits

  • The Smile - primary artist
  • Hugh Brunt - conductor
  • London Contemporary Orchestra - strings
  • Sam Petts-Davies - producer, mixed by

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