"Bending Hectic" is a song by the English rock band the Smile, from their second studio album, Wall of Eyes (2024).

[4][5] "Bending Hectic" was recorded in Abbey Road Studios, with production by Sam Petts-Davies and strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra.

[6] "Bending Hectic" begins with a detuned guitar and builds to a heavy crescendo, with lyrics describing a car crash, a familiar subject for Yorke.

[10] In Stereogum, Chris DeVille described it as an "epic that starts out soft and quiet and builds into a splendorous stomping beast" and called it among "the best and most ambitious" of the new songs played on their 2022 tour.

[14] However, reflecting on Wall of Eyes after its release, DeVille wrote that he did not like the slow build, writing: "The payoff is tremendous, but the journey there becomes a slog.