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We're pleased to welcome Benefits to the shop to coincide with the release of their brand new album 'Constant Noise'.
The show will be on Saturday 22nd March with the band on at 4.30pm. We advise you to arrive for 4.20pm and queue in the corridor.
Entry to this event will be with pre-order of Constant Noise from us.
About Constant Noise:
Due out 21st March via Invada Records (BEAK>, Billy Nomates, and more), “Constant Noise” follows the band’s widely acclaimed 2023 debut album “NAILS”, a passionate expression of anger and disillusionment about divisive, xenophobic, and toxic rhetoric, told through the filter of brutal, eviscerating music. Prior to release, the band had generated a word of mouth following most artists can only dream of, and after catching the ear of Invada Records co-founder Geoff Barrow (as well as other high-profile fans such as the late great Steve Albini), the band released an album which delivered on all that early promise and then some. “NAILS” not only earned widespread press support and radio playlist spots, but it also appeared in album of the year lists from the likes of Louder Than War (#1), BBC Radio 6 Music, NME, The Quietus, The Line Of Best Fit, Loud & Quiet, Far Out, God Is In The TV, and more.After an incendiary 2024, which also saw the band make their Glastonbury Festival debut, an Arab Strap support, extensive UK & EU touring inc. Iceland Airwaves, Left Of the Dial (NL) and Transmusicales (FR) , the question facing both Benefits and their fans was “what’s next?”. “Maybe it’s better to just give up” muses frontman Kingsley Hall. “A year of endlessly stopping and starting, building up, getting knocked down, transforming, imploding. I’m sure we split up at one point, but it just slipped our minds, so we carried on. This band is a battle.”Rather than split up, what the band did instead was re-calibrate. After a succession of different line-ups, Benefits have now settled as a two-piece made up of Hall and electronic virtuoso Robbie Major. “We’re still angry and “Constant Noise” is an angry album,” says Hall, “just angry in a different way to before. We wanted to create something almost joyous in its disgust at the world. If the previous record was black and white, we wanted this to be technicolour.” The first taste of this new musical direction came in the form of their recent return single “Land Of The Tyrants”, which saw the band delving into bass-heavy, dance inflected rhythms and subtle industrial undercurrents. Follow-up single ‘Relentless’ featured The Libertines’ Peter Doherty and saw the band move further into ambient electronic atmospherics, combining gentle yet ominous synth lines with reserved yet smouldering vocals that focus on spurious halcyon days.Doherty is just one of the many collaborators on the new record, Zera Tønin, the singer of queerpop-electro duo Arch Femmesis, Neil Cooper of Therapy?, and Middlesborough rapper Shakk all make cameos. In addition to guest musicians, the album also features production work from James Welsh (Phantasy Sound), and James Adrian Brown (ex-Pulled Apart By Horses, now electronic/tape loops/noise artist) who helped to guide the new direction. The result is an album that gleans as much from the likes of Underworld and Leftfield as it does the likes of The Streets or Beastie Boys in their pomp, or even the 90s / early 00s Indie Sleaze-era.
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Label: Invada
