‘Can I go again?’, the debut full-length album by Richmond, VA-based singer-songwriter Bent (Bent Nutall) is a diverse collection of contemplative, tightly-crafted indie-pop, rock, and soul tracks as emotionally resonant as they are immediate and infectious. These tracks are equally worthy of processing heart break, gaming with your friends, or finding strength in solitudegrowth in time requires an embrace of seriousness as well as unbridled, shameless joy.

Bents debut EP, ‘Game Over’ (2021), was an honest effort at self-reflection through electronic dance and disco atmospheresthe titular question of their debut album serves as a reset on the arcade game with more knowledge, maturity, and assurance as Bent moves into more organic instrumental accompaniment and refined songwriting. The ebullient and sharp guitar riffs and driving bassline of Insensitive lift Bents vocals as they sing about feelings of nervousness, desire, and ultimately overcoming both with assuredness. Bent gets to flaunt satisfying personal growth in Overpowering over a smooth bassline and strutting beat. No Alarm offers another look at Bents lyrical vulnerability, moving back and forth between self-consciousness in the verses and a shimmering string emphasized certainty in the chorus.

Bents music has always been influenced by the environments around them and the people who they choose to create with. The album is a result of roughly three years of writing and recording at various times with different groups of friends and musical partnersin Richmond, VA with Jacob Grissom, Christian Lewis, Neal Perrine, and John Trainum, in Philadelphia with Kyle Pulley and Danny Murillo, and in New York with Carlos Truly.

‘Can I go again?’ is about taking and recognizing time, growing deliberately, and expressing delight and nervousness with confidence. Bent uses Can I go again? to work through their own place amidst inspiring, confusing, difficult, and beautiful human connectivity and present these unforgettable, catchy, emotional songs with the hope the audience can listen and do the same.