(...) Renascence feels more like an excavation: a careful return to ideas that survived long periods of silence and came back carrying new weight. bent’s first full-length gathers material whose origins stretch back more than two decades, and that long passage of time is central to the album’s identity. These songs were not written in a single creative rush, nor assembled to satisfy a current trend. They were lived with, left alone, revisited, and finally brought into focus.