Nails, by Benefits

Nails

by Benefits

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Darknight A wee bit of Thank, Sleaford Mods and Planet B collide with tonnes of attitude and venomous bile are the DNA of Benefits, I love it!! This will really resonate with you, the truth is in the pudding, just listen to 'Shit Britain' Favorite track: Shit Britain.

mikejn A bit Crass and decent Sleaford Mods (early stuff) but with a sound of all their own. My neighbours are going to love it.

nikarabot Intense status report from UK. Strong and honest tobacco! Favorite track: Council Rust.

Milk 🥛 Fantastic band with an attitude and lyrics that resonate.
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Rob Fraser The perfect soundtrack to this glorious coronation year...

tobias asplund This fucking record will see some heavy rotation going forward. Everything about these songs is grade A brilliant, even the non violent parts. Favorite track: Empire.

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1.	Marlboro Hundreds 02:53	buy track
2.	Empire 03:18	buy track
3.	Warhorse 02:48	buy track
4.	Shit Britain 02:57	buy track
5.	What More Do You Want 02:37	buy track
6.	Meat Teeth 04:19	buy track
7.	Mindset 03:18	buy track
8.	Flag 02:47	buy track
9.	Traitors 04:23	buy track
10.	Council Rust 05:52	buy track

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Critically acclaimed Teesside agitators Benefits announce their much-anticipated debut album ‘NAILS’ on Invada Records.

Pre-order the album now, out 21st April!

In their four years of existence, much has changed for Benefits. Over lockdown they morphed from spirited guitar-led punks into overwhelmingly brutal harsh noise-wielders, whose furious, eviscerating music garnered them the kind of word of mouth following most artists can only dream of. Frontman Kingsley Hall’s spoken (and screamed) vocals acting as a righteous rebuke to the divisive, xenophobic, poisonous rhetoric coming from elsewhere, spread by those who stand to profit from the fallout, that had all but overwhelmed our public discourse.

Every time one of the band’s bracing polemics arrived it would spread rapidly across social media like an antidote to that disease and gather more to Benefits’ cause. High profile fans like Steve Albini, Sleaford Mods and Modeselektor were among those on board from the off. Effusive coverage from the likes of NME, The Quietus, Loud & Quiet and The Guardian and more soon followed.

Now, however, they are stepping things up a level, signing to esteemed indie imprint Invada who will release their debut album ‘NAILS’ on April 21. “We could have released a record at any point over the last couple of years but held back because I wanted to wait until the right people came along,” Hall says. The label’s co-founder Geoff Barrow of Portishead was one of the many who’d been drawn to the music as it made waves online, and when he came to see the group perform live in his native Bristol was immediately hooked. His faith in the band has been repaid and then some, producing a record that not only confirms the group’s brilliance, but also redefines what you thought was possible. It captures all of that validating rage that established them one of the most exciting acts in the country – skull crushing fan favourites ‘Flag’, ‘Empire’ and ‘Meat Teeth’ are all present and correct – but also pushes their sound into bold new territory, both sonically and emotionally.

Take lead single ‘Warhorse’ for instance. A playful riposte to those whose limited musical horizons have seen them question the band’s ‘punk’ credentials, the band gathered a series of crushing drum fills, and transformed them into a relentless, inherently danceable electro banger. “I love punk, I love cartoon punk, I think it’s brilliant,” Hall says. “Sometimes we get all that ‘you’re not shit, you’re not punk.’ Bullshit! Yes we are.” He also, however, knows that sometimes the best way to deliver his kind of message is to get people moving. “An iron fist in a velvet glove,” he says, hence the intensified focus on pure rhythm.

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released April 21, 2023

BENEFITS: KINGSLEY HALL, ROBBIE MAJOR, HUGH MAJOR
ADDITIONAL DRUMS: JONNY SNOWBALL, DALE FROST
PRODUCED BY: BENEFITS
ASSISTED BY: STEPHEN NORMAN, KATIE TAVINI, PAUL RITCHIE, JOE BELL
MASTERED BY: TOM WOODHEAD
GUERNICA REVISITED BY: WEFAIL
SLEEVE DESIGN BY: CHRIS REEDER

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Benefits Middlesbrough, UK

An issues based music collective from Teesside in the North East of England. We write songs about the urgencies that concern us. These songs are loud.

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