Started off being a Sleaford Mods rip off but the newer stuff is more interesting musically, sounds like Whitehouse in places (though Mods did support a Whitehouse spin off band a couple times so it’s not straying too far I guess)
Released a new single a few weeks back
Weirdly first found out about them on the NME website early last year. Must still be good for somethings.
Increasingly convinced Benefits are going to be a bit of a big deal
Flag is a banger:
Good review of their London show here
First heard them supporting ILikeTrains.
Musically I quite liked them but I strongly dislike the lyrics and delivery of them. Like an Idles/Sleaford Mods (as you say) but even more on the nose IIRC
Arch Feminis are great too
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I like the music and he clearly has a blistering hatred for the tories and the british right in general – good luck to him.
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wowzer
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Benefits is Kingsley Hall, AKA Kingsley Chapman, formerly of the Chapman Family and Kingsley Chapman & the Murder.
Loved KC & the Murder but really not arsed about his other projects.
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Didn’t know this. Not sure if it got released or not but the lasts chapman family stuff I heard was good
Quite like the idea of this stuff but not sure I can ever listen to a lot.
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That made me feel incredibly uncomfortable as it went on. I liked it though. The subtle harsh noise build was ace.
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That track definitely takes influence from
Well, I’m pretty sure it does
the first chapman family album was sick, i think there was another one but i never listened to it for some reason. pretty into this benefits stuff, don’t really hear the sleaford mods comparison but that might be coz i don’t like sleaford mods. obvs this sounds nothing like idles but for some reason everyone who likes sleaford mods likes idles 
Which is ironic because Sleaford Mods HATE Idles.
Really liking the album. Great bit of noisy shouty political poetry and smashing of drums. Saw them live the other night. It was intense!