Benefits and Peter Doherty align on new single ‘Relentless’.
The North East project impressed with caustic 2023 album ‘NAILS’, playing some emphatic live shows across the country.
Re-assembling, Benefits has now now settled as a two-piece made up of Kingsley Hall and electronic virtuoso Robbie Major.
New album ‘Constant Noise’ is out on March 21st – more electronic in tone, the songs are “almost joyous in its disgust at the world”, reveals Hall.
New song ‘Relentless’ recognises the pressures of everyday life, but learns to pursue individual goals – it’s a hymn of resistance, with Kingsley Hall’s powerful semi spoken word performance joined to sighing vocals from Peter Doherty.
Kingsley Hall comments…
Maybe it’s better to just give up. 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.
We felt there was no point in just repeating the first album. We’ve never been ones for simply sticking in our lane, plus, it’s been a tough few years – I’ve forgotten how many times we’ve been praised and written off in equal measure. This band is a battle.
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Tom White
