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about
Traitors is what it is. It's supposed to be uncomfortable and intense...and not quite right. Everything in the red. It's an almost direct follow up to our previous song "Shit Britain", but this one goes further down the rabbit hole that one dug, and finds a really nasty rabbit sat at the bottom who wants to tear your face off.
We recorded it remotely, separately and abstractly. The synth drones were made in a practice room in Newcastle, the vocals were recorded in a kitchen in Stockton, and the drums were recorded a year ago for different songs in Saltburn. Then they were all mashed together.
It's about trying to find chaos from order and trying to reflect with honesty the state of the world as we currently see it.
lyrics
I’m surrounded by red white and blue
But I stand out
And I’m the treacherous one, I’m the shit
Just for wanting people not to get hurt, not to get ridiculed, not to get spat at in the street or pissed on in alleyways because they’ve got no where else to sleep…
But ok ok ok ok yeah yeah I’m the disgrace, I’m the shit, the national fucking danger, I’m a public menace, the snowflake
Idiotic rhetoric pumping into our brains
Boozed up, dumbed down, clown town
You pander to a non existent past,
Presumed arrogance, sausage class,
A new found spring in your goose step
Stiffened back, the rigid frame of the victorious fascist
Yet I’m the scum, the unpatriotic one,
Faithless, feckless, all bark, no bite
A deserter from my own fucking birthright
I’m the betrayer, I’m the shite
I’m bringing the country down, This northern clown.
And I get it, I get it, I really fucking do
I lost get over it, I LOST GET OVER IT
Rub my face into the fucking mud,
Plaster it on billboards going up to the sky,
YOU LOST HA HA FUCKING HA HA
Rule Britannia playing on the radio twenty four hours a day
Union flags hung in every street
Spitfires fly past, homeless pile up, no one gives a fuck
We get the future you deserve
We get the future you deserve
We get the future you deserve
TRAITORS TRAITORS TRAITORS
Sell yer guitars. Pawn yer clarinet. Fuck your creativity. Fuck you dreams. The new normal does not need entertainment. It needs only work. Viable work. Retrain. Stop moaning. Get a job making fucking flags.
Shut up now. Shut up. Shut up.
We get the future you deserve
We get the future you deserve
TRAITORS
I scroll through endless cameraphone footage, racists on public transport,
Screaming into faces, scaring kids,
Wide eyed bushy tailed, full of fuck
“Im loud and proud, it is what it is, I say what I like and I like what I say” etc etc etc okay
“it’s called freedom of speech mate, look it up”
Look it up. Look it up. Look. It. Up. LOOK IT UP.
Bullshit goggle eyes, bullshit google eyes.
YOU’RE ALRIGHT JACK
YOU’RE ALRIGHT JACK
TRAITORS TRAITORS TRAITORS TRAITORS
credits
released November 26, 2020
"Traitors" by Benefits
Kingsley Hall, Jonny Snowball, Robbie Major, Hugh Major
Recorded by Kingsley Hall, Jonny Snowball in Saltburn and Robbie Major in Newcastle
Mastered by Kingsley Hall
I can safely say I've never been this excited over a piece of plastic in my entire life! This is awesome! It's impossible to pick a favourite when every track is a banger. The lyrics are on point and delivered with an acerbic wit and passion that leaves me in no doubt that they're spoken from the heart. I need more of this in my life! Dylan Barry
Amazing. Music full of energy and soul. And lyrics not scared of having an opinion. Plus on one of my favourite labels Invada. Finding this music this morning made my day. phil stairmand-jackson