Teesside’s Benefits returned with the announcement of their second album, “Constant Noise”, alongside a new single titled “Relentless” featuring Peter Doherty of legendary indie band The Libertines.

Rather than split up, what the band did instead was re-calibrate. After a going through a succession of drummers, 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. 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.”

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