Benefits - Constant Noise

Stylistic reinventions are getting rarer and rarer. If something has worked, artists are either encouraged to continue to give the people what (they think) they want or, more likely, do so at their label’s request (insistence).

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Especially if it makes money.

Thankfully, Benefits purposefully operate outside the mainstream music industry.

Not only that, from the outset their guiding principles have demonstrably been about integrity, honesty and purity, and for that we should be grateful.

Where debut album Nails was a vital, powerful but unrelenting body of rock work full of visceral aggression, for Constant Noise, Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major have recalibrated their sonic approach, creating an album that retains its uncompromising energy while expanding into immersive, electronic landscapes.

From the outset, Constant Noise establishes itself as something new; the title-track opens with Hall’s spoken-word lament, ‘I’m looking up in awe at a mountain of shit’, setting the scene while replacing sheer sonic fury with a creeping dread, blending ambient textures and industrial rhythms to amplify its social and political commentary.

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