Pre-Order Benefits - ‘Constant Noise’

(Release Date 21st March 2025)

This is the limited edition cassette version of the album, which comes housed in a clear case and includes a full lyric booklet. 

TRACKLISTING

1. Constant Noise
2. Land Of The Tyrants
3. The Victory Lap
4. Lies And Fear
5. Missiles
6. Blame
7. Continual
8. Divide
9. Relentless
10. Terror Forever
11. Dancing On The Tables
12. Everything Is Going To Be Alright
13. The Brambles
14. Burnt Out Family Home

Benefits return with the their highly anticipated second album, “Constant Noise”

“I fucking love Benefits.” - Steve Albini

Due out 21st March, “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.