Cincinatti’s Stella Research Committee has sadly-according to reports from, well, them-put an end to their investigations.
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Alt-90’s is there in the mix, but so are rap, funk, drum’n’bass and a healthy bit of not taking themselves too seriously, all amalgamated into what they call “nü jungle US grime phonk.” The best of the new set is lead single “Devil Lady” (look for the video), a slap back at Spell’s Baptist upbringing but also a raver full of female swagger.
Fortunately, they saw past that commonality. Vocalist Symphony Spell met future bandmate Zach Fairbrother while working in a Philadelphia pizzeria, where the two bonded over a shared love for nu metal bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit. Following a string of digi-singles (not to mention opening for My Chemical Romance at UBS Arena last summer), their five-track EP PRISSMASSIVE comes out May 26 from Ramp Local with a cassette edition that includes eight older tracks. Also graduating from the singles format is the duo-with-a-full-band-sound Ghösh. Twenty-two years in and they can still swing the unexpected. Like Benefits, they whip up genuine ire on the two original cuts, and then drop in a bashing, 98-second Orbital cover. On “Traitors,” one of the earlier singles included on the album, Hall imparts over a tense drone “Rule Britannia playing on the radio twenty-four hours a day / Union flags hung in every street / Spitfires fly past, homeless pile up, no one gives a fuck / We get the future you deserve.” Johnny Rotten famously, menacingly, claimed that the Pistols were “the future, your future,” on their “God Save the Queen.” Almost a half century later, Benefits are left to clean up the mess, or at least live in it.Īnd while we’re being incendiary, Toronto’s Fucked Up have issued Cops, a digital-only three-track EP of old-school short and fast cuts. They seem recently to have dropped guitars entirely from their setup, going with drums and electronics, but that in no way softens their blows. Behind him is a three-piece machine that can pull off electro grind, thick ambient and punishing rhythms. Dry Cleaning, Fontaines D.C., Gilla Band, Yard Act). Vocalist Kingsley Hall switches between screams of absolute fury and impassioned poetic oratory that fits in with the talkcore trend (cf. Their sound is huge and their vitriol not just theatrical.
Nails is vital and visceral, brutal and contemporary. But really, it’s not Benefits fault they’re so good. NME, The Quietus and Rolling Stone have all been eating it up, another thing that would have spoken to first-gen punks as pompous and privilege.
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Their first album came out April 21 (LP, CD, download on Invada) to rounds of acclaim as deserved as they were unexpected. But I admit nevertheless to having felt the same way about Britain’s Benefits, who’ve been releasing tracks one at a time via Bandcamp and YouTube since 2019. It’s the way of all corporate things, and it doesn’t actually make much of a difference anyway. A Pistols long-player would have happened sooner or later, of course. Albums were the domain of bloated acts like Van der Graaf, Stills & Palmer or whatever. Singles were punk: short, cheap and disposable. There were some among the first generation of punk who decried the Sex Pistols for being so bourgeoisie as to put out an LP.
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