- 2024-11-14
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MUSIC
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Benefits Announces New Album “Constant Noise”, Shares New Song “Relentless” featuring Peter Doherty
British indie rock band Benefits, consisting of Kingsley Hall (vocals) and Robbie Major (synthesizer), has announced their sophomore album “Constant Noise” will be released on March 21, 2025 via Invada Records.
From the album, the band released a new song “Relentless” on November 13, 2024.
The song is the second single off of the album, following “Land Of The Tyrants” featuring Zera Tønin.
This time, the band teamed up with British rock band The Libertines' Peter Doherty on the track.
The track was written by Kingsley hall, Peter Doherty, Robbie Major, and James Adrian Brown who also produced it.
The band lead singer Kingsley Hall said of the song, “The song is about craving for a past you had that exists perhaps solely in your memory. Yearning your lost youth, when things seemed easier. Getting Peter Doherty involved was important not just because he’s a legendary performer but also because he was a hero to both of us when we were getting into music, linking in with the theme of the song.”- He continued, “Peter and the Libertines were integral to our musical education and love of music, like it or not, he’s a hugely important factor as to why we do what we do. He’s part of our past and we’re honoured and humbled that he agreed to participate in our future.”
The accompanying music video was directed by John Kirkbride.
The band said of the video, “The video for 'Relentless' was made by our friend John Kirkbride, one of the most talented people we know. We love what you do John, you bring our ideas to life in such a beautiful way, thank you. We filmed it in Black Market, the awesome new karaoke bar owned by Jimmy Beck, the guy who texted me to go and meet Peter in the first place early last year.” -
The new album is their first project as the duo and comprises 14 songs, featuring guest appearances from Zera Tønin and Peter Doherty.
Kingsley Hall said of the album, “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.”
He continued, “We’re still angry and ‘Constant Noise’ is an angry album. Just angry in a different way to before. There’s plenty of bands around who are more overt and obvious in their rage - just as we were on our debut – and that’s fine, we just wanted to develop something beyond that. 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.”
He added, “None of this sounds joyous, but believe me, it is, we strived for a dark euphoria, plus it was a thrill to make. It’s an album we’re all immensely proud of. We knew it was going to be a risk to go against the formula of our debut, especially as it was so well received by critics, but we never wanted this band to become predictable or get stuck in a rut. We prefer being on the edge of not quite knowing what we’re doing, our discomfort driving creativity. Benefits was designed as a collaborative project and whether that means we get our mate onstage to sing a folk song or ask the drummer from Therapy to play for us, that’s how it survives, and that’s how it will remain.”
Photo by Tom White - source : Apple Music
