Benefits have shared the first new single, “Land Off The Tyrants”, off what may be their upcoming 2nd album to be released soon(ish) via Invada Records.
The single features Zera Tonin from the band Arch Femmesis.
The video for the song was directed by John Kirkbride, which took heavy influence from the movie “The Long Good Friday”.
Kingsley Hall shared this about it: “I’m not very good at being Bob Hoskins but Robbie is surprisingly good at being Pierce Brosnan, that’s my hot take. If the people who make Bond movies want to get in touch our DMs are open. There’s something really gratifying about having a daft idea in the middle of the night, like wanting to recreate the final scene in The Long Good Friday, and then seeing it materialise with a few wonky edges, a few days later on your laptop screen. Our amazing friend Martin Fox came to the rescue with lending us his car, a lovely motor, and because he looks incredible AND hard as nails, he also agreed to play an important role in the video too. Result.”
Sharing a thought regarding their current state as a band Hall said this: “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. Audiences came intrigued by what they’d heard about us in the music press, some stayed, some fled to the nearest exit their hands cupped tight round their ears. We supported Warmduscher and a guy in the front row recommended I get therapy. We got album of the year accolades for something we recorded in our bedrooms. It was a strange old time.”
Hall also shared this: “Our songs are still angry, WE are still angry, but we are approaching it all in a different way. This is a punk move from us, this IS punk, but not as you might know it.”
i think i better follow you around 