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BENEFITS – CONstant noise – album review

In a relatively short time, incendiary Teessiders Benefits have managed to create quite the buzz, and that clatter is sure to continue as they unveil their sophomore collection, ‘Constant Noise’!

This new album is fifty-one minutes of visceral poetry set amongst a sonic onslaught which is at times is both haunting and euphoric. An essence of Balearic house is given a punk makeover to create a framework for the trademark verse of frontman Kingsley Hall.

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This lyricism presents the grim realities of the world with frank and inescapable purity. “…it’s continual, everyday new shit, new shifts, new grifts, promises become lies become promises and then they die, forgotten about, time after time…” scythes Hall.

We all know that feeling, that the shower of brown stuff is just relentless, that there appears to be no relief. The words spoken on this album therefore will reverberate with relativity. This is a sonnet for the beaten, the betrayed and the damned. Benefits at times are providing a voice for the voiceless but more than that they are asking you to think… to care.

A slew of collaborators have helped Hall and electronic maestro Robbie Major to create this record and ensured together that it is a genuine evolution of their art. Of course, there remain similarities to their astonishing debut ‘NAILS’, but on this new album Benefits are a different beast entirely.

‘Constant Noise’ is a horrifyingly accurate assessment of modern life and how if feels to live it. It may be a little too cliched to say that Benefits are one of the most important bands of this time… but what they have to say has a vital necessity to it for damn sure!

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