Benefits are an issues-based music collective from Teesside in the North East of England. They write songs about the urgencies that concern them, and they play them loud.
Forming in 2019 and consisting of Kingsley Hall on vocals, Robbie Major and Hugh Major on synths and noise, and Jonny Snowball on drums they quickly evolved from a standard shouty punk rock outfit into a minimalist, overtly political band that merges noise, hip hop and industrial rock, creating an effect that feels urgent, darkly hilarious and unsettling all at once.