Benefits by Michael Sreenan
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Benefits have signed to Invada Records for the release of their debut album Nails.
Warhorse has been picked to accompany the announcement – described by frontman Kingsley Hall as being about, ‘the need to push that boot back from our faces, raise our heads, stand up and fight’:
”At some point if the boot continues to stamp on us, we’re going to react. Things bug me. They start as little irks and become fiercer.”
Fresh off a BBC 6 Music live session with Mark Riley, Warmduscher have released their new single Love Strong.
“Back in the lab for 2023 in celebration of our first tour of many in North America. Recorded and produced by Dan Carey, producer of Whale City and Tainted Lunch,” Clams Baker Jr said.
“Love Strong is the late-night adventure bridging the gap between At The Hotspot and our next album due to hit the streets late 2023 on BELLA UNION. A love story of keeping it up in a world that wants to bring you down. Alive in the adventure, alone in the dream. Love Strong and you’ll do just fine.”
Nuha Ruby Ra has shared 6 In The Morning from her upcoming Machine Like Me EP.
“A fiction based on true events in the life of an east London musician who’s affiliated with the south,” Nuha said of the track. “Set in a party at my Hackney Wick warehouse where everyone was invited.”
“It starts with me walking down the stairs from my bedroom after getting dressed up, the party’s started and the scene we’ve spent a week building has come to life. Do you really live here?”
Los Bitchos have given a digital release to their new EP ‘PAH!‘, featuring covers of their live favourite Tequila and the King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard track Trapdoor.
“We love King Gizzard and Trapdoor was a song of theirs that stood out for a cover choice,” the band said.
“It was that repetitive hook of ‘Trapdoor, trapdoor, trapdoor’ that we found so compelling and trippy. It also translates great to a guitar hook! Our version starts off feeling like a hazy summer’s day and escalates in a frantic tempo change that suggests all is not what it seems and trouble could be brewing. Hehe…”
Orielles guitarist Henry Carlyle faced up to the final cold months of 2022 by crafting a new single entitled I Float.
“This winter crept up on us,” he said. “I started writing a lot of music on this synth I bought back in October. During dark evenings I built up an ambient track, Prelude and when I finished that I realised it was the element I Float had been missing.”
“Through its many iterations, I struggled to get close enough to expressing the song’s idea until then.
