Premiere: Listen: Bent Denim Stream ‘Periodic Table’ Track

Nope, your eyes haven’t deceived you. Up above? That really is an impromptu, slightly hilarious press shot courtesy of Bent Denim. The reason they have such a to-hell-with-it approach towards band photos is because the two members who make up the project are rarely in the same place at once. That’s kind of the point.

Ben Littlejohn and Dennis Sager collaborate from two different locations Stateside. Ben’s from Nashville, while Dennis comes from New Orleans. They fire over tracks and half-finished ideas via email until they can check an imaginative box and go ‘this is a song’. A completed track is probably confirmed via a happy face smiley, or something to that effect.

Lots of smileys ought to be awarded to ‘Periodic Table’. The song essentially documents a couple of guys at the end of their teens, worrying about the future, flicking back through the past. ‘I’m not, who I thought I’d be at fourteen’ runs the confession, on top of a backdrop worthy for the Youth Lagoon intimacy-stakes, with swooshing piano lines and some stirring, minor-key misery lining the seams.

DIY has the premiere. Stream the song below and on the off-chance you’re in New Orleans tonight, Bent Denim are in the same room at the same time, playing a gig at the Saturn Bar.