The Maccabees, Bloc Party for Benicassim 2016

The Maccabees and Bloc Party are among some new additions to Benicassim 2016, with Kendrick Lamar confirmed as one of the headliners.

The event takes place in Spain between July 14th-17th, and has Major Lazer, Jamie xx, Mac DeMarco, Delorean and Hannah Wants now on its bill too.

The Maccabees will be at the festival with their ‘Marks To Prove It‘ album – this week named as one of Live4ever’s top releases of 2015.

“The standout moments come as a pair,” our review reads. ‘Something Like Happiness‘ is more than anything else here reminiscent of their earlier records, but comes with a maturity, a slight darkness and an unshakable brilliance that is all ‘Marks To Prove It’s own. This is followed by the brilliant rage and fury, the shifting and jagged beauty of ‘WW1 Portraits‘. It hits hard, very hard indeed.”

“If it wasn’t apparent before, this record affirms The Maccabees’ brilliance, but also cements their individuality. There are hints of this, whisps of that, suggestions of some things half remembered. In reality it’s The Maccabees and nothing else.”