Bent
Release date: June 3, 2026
Genre: Alternative Rock
Label: FADER Label
In the music video, Ivy even hard to make a smile, but he finally did one. The whole video made people feel that Ivy was trapped somewhere as heavy as 2 tons of concrete, like he wrote in the lyrics…
After three years without a new song release, James Ivy returns with Bent, an alternative rock song built around his featured warm guitar riffs and threaded with bright, silvery percussion. Written with Ally Sianga Macdonald in London in early 2024, the track is first of many. Guessing maybe there’s a whole album in the upcoming half year!
Oh baby
– James Ivy
I’m out of sorts again
And you’re talking me off that ledge
When you take me like you should
And you hold me how you would
And you hold me how you would
Back then
When the line “when you take me like you should” arrives, Ivy cries it out almost like a call for help before the song moves into its chorus. Bent turns love into both shelter and pressure, capturing the fear of losing someone who has already changed your shape, your emotional world, and almost everything about the way you move through life.
In the music video, Ivy looks as if even smiling takes effort. The whole visual world is gloomy, cold, and damp, making him seem trapped under the same weight he writes about in the lyrics. He appears to be dragged forward and moves through the darkness without really running. He seems like with barely any hope left instead of trying to escape.
There’s something in my iron that’s been pulling me down weighing like it’s two ton concrete
Blocks attached to the bottom of my ankles and
Everything is catching up to me
It follows through these withered streets
Blog Date: Jun 3, 2026
