Benefit State

Benefit State is a Punk Rock band from Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom. “Disorganised” collates all of Benefit State‘s releases and includes their bruising version of Ewan McColl‘s ‘Dirty Old Town‘, a track that was popularised by The Pogues but whose roots are firmly in the city of Salford.

Benefit State do not deal in subtlety, their agenda is laid out in brutal fashion with a somewhat what unexpected studio veneer applied, at least when compared to the raw sound they deliver live. There are technical metallic influences laid over an old school UK82 approach. The punk influences are blended with elements of crossover and hardcore which should tell you this is a band that is a full blooded heavyweight. If you like your punk rock blue collar and confrontational then Benefit State may just be the band for you, coming from the streets of a working class city they are down to earth and completely unfiltered.

Disorganised (2021)

01 - Dirty Old Town (Ewan McColl Cover)

02 - Attention Seeker

03 - Dusseldorf

04 - Little Blue Pill

05 - No Trust

06 - Parasite

07 - Plastic People

08 - Release The Cure

09 - Wanted By

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