Peggy Sue bassist Benedict Benjamin announces new solo album ‘Truant’, and shares garage-rock tinged new single ‘Ain’t Easy’
Benedict Benjamin announces second album Truant due for release May 3rd + shares new single
‘Ain’t Easy’
Benedict Benjamin – ‘Ain’t Easy’
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Benedict Benjamin is Ben Rubinstein, formerly of The Mariners Children and Peggy Sue. Today he releases ‘Ain’t Easy’, the first single from his forthcoming album ‘Truant,’ a driving and melodic piece of sixties influenced garage rock.
After writing and recording his debut, Ben turned to a more full band sound for his second album. The early sixties Everly Brothers influences are still present in the melodies, but now there is an urgency and grit to the instrumentation that sits somewhere between The Velvet Underground and Tom Petty or more recent forbears such as Kevin Morby and Angel Olsen.
Speaking on the release of ‘Ain’t Easy’, Benedict said: “This song’s about how much work you’ve got to put into anything in order to make it work. It’s about how hard it sometimes is just to keep things afloat and not pack it all in. You go through good spells where everything is great and bad spells where everything feels crap and difficult. When you’re in one of the latter you either persevere or you just give up, and this song’s about the persevering.”
His songs undercut the dream-like beauty of early sixties pop music with lyrics both frank and poetic, creating a powerful Lynchian duality that makes the heart swell and the head spin.
Alongside the new single release today, Benedict Benjamin will also be playing songs from the forthcoming album at the following dates in March.
March
6: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (solo) w/ Christof van der Ven & Emma Gatrill
8: The Prince Albert, Stroud (solo) w/ Christof van der Ven & Emma Gatrill
9: The Rose Hill, Brighton (solo) w/ Christof van der Ven & Emma Gatrill
11: The Waiting Room (full band) w/ Christof van der Ven & Emma Gatrill
Benedict Benjamin‘s debut album ‘Night Songs’, produced by Dan Blackett (Landshapes, Bella Union) came out in 2016. New album Truant is its follow up – due for release May 3rd 2019.
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