Name: Nails
Brand: Benefits

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INV294LP

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White

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[r26898380]

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Download code: Yes

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With Fold Out Poster.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-04-21

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PIAS

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5051083187077

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White LP

INV294CD

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5051083187039

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Benefits

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Alternative / Modern

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Invada

Invada Records was formed in 2002 by Geoff Barrow, Ashley Anderson, and Redg Weeks. Geoff and Ashley have been collaborating since 1998 and decided to establish the label together. In 2003, Geoff started Invada Records UK, focusing on developing a roster of artists from the UK that would also be released in Australia. As the label continues to grow, Invada is expanding its distribution network worldwide.

An issues based music collective from Teesside in the North East of England. We write songs about the urgencies that concern us. These songs are loud.
Welcome to our artist page! We are a passionate and dynamic music collective hailing from Teesside, located in the vibrant North East of England. Our mission is simple: to create powerful and impactful songs that address pressing issues close to our hearts. Through our music, we aim to shed light on urgent matters that demand attention and action. From social injustices to environmental concerns, we fearlessly tackle these topics with an unapologetically loud sound that resonates with listeners worldwide.
With a strong sense of purpose, we use our platform as musicians to raise awareness and inspire change. Our lyrics delve deep into the complexities of society, offering thought-provoking perspectives on the challenges we face today. Each song is carefully crafted with heartfelt emotion and an unwavering commitment to making a difference through art.

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Critically acclaimed Teesside agitators Benefits return with the announcement of their much-anticipated debut album Nails.

In their four years of existence, much has changed for Benefits. Over lockdown they morphed from spirited guitar-led punks into overwhelmingly brutal harsh noise-wielders, whose furious, eviscerating music garnered them the kind of word of mouth following most artists can only dream of. Frontman Kingsley Hall’s spoken (and screamed) vocals acting as a righteous rebuke to the divisive, xenophobic, poisonous rhetoric coming from elsewhere, spread by those who stand to profit from the fallout, that had all but overwhelmed our public discourse.

Every time one of the band’s bracing polemics arrived it would spread rapidly across social media like an antidote to that disease and gather more to Benefits’ cause. High profile fans like Steve Albini, Sleaford Mods and Modeselektor were among those on board from the off.

Now, however, they are stepping things up a level, signing to esteemed indie imprint Invada who will release their debut album Nails. “We could have released a record at any point over the last couple of years but held back because I wanted to wait until the right people came along,” Hall says. The label’s co-founder Geoff Barrow of Portishead was one of the many who’d been drawn to the music as it made waves online, and when he came to see the group perform live in his native Bristol was immediately hooked. His faith in the band has been repaid and then some, producing a record that not only confirms the group’s brilliance, but also redefines what you thought was possible. It captures all of that validating rage that established them one of the most exciting acts in the country – skull crushing fan favourites ‘Flag’, ‘Empire’ and ‘Meat Teeth’ are all present and correct – but also pushes their sound into bold new territory, both sonically and emotionally.

Take lead single ‘Warhorse’ for instance. A playful riposte to those whose limited musical horizons have seen them question the band’s ‘punk’ credentials, the band gathered a series of crushing drum fills, and transformed them into a relentless, inherently danceable electro banger. “I love punk, I love cartoon punk, I think it’s brilliant,” Hall says. “Sometimes we get all that ‘you’re not shit, you’re not punk.’ Bullshit! Yes we are.” He also, however, knows that sometimes the best way to deliver his kind of message is to get people moving. “An iron fist in a velvet glove,” he says, hence the intensified focus on pure rhythm.

Nails

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