“Benefits unleash their furious invective on the state of the nation with NAILS”
“a Brexit Britain-baiting state of the nation”
“Teesside hardcore collective Benefits are angry. Their debut album, Nails, makes that much clear. Rage explodes from every word frontman Kingsley Hall spits down the microphone: at the government, at empire, at the complicity of (some of) the public. Formed in 2019, Benefits were initially aiming for indie-punk and a good shout (Hall has since described that early stuff as ‘IDLES-lite’), but over”