World Of Benbo

Picture courtesy of Toby Amies
Benbo
Folk / Pop
From United Kingdom

Previously addled by stints in The Black Tulips (first featured on the Devil's blog way back in November 2006, The Black Tulips) and The Gays, indie melody machine Benbo’s long-suffering brain was melted further by someone introducing him to the decidedly uninhibited art of David Shrigley. “I started spewing out drawings into my lyrics notebook – stickmen, sexy owls, trampolining peanuts, a whole heap of deformed naked people. Like Ming the
Merciless penetrated my brain with his fat needle and turned off my censorship switch.”

Freed up, he wrote an album’s worth of songs in his head, went into the studio, recorded the Black Hole EP, and gave it to director Jake Scott. “I shot him a disc.
The same day, he emailed over this genius story he’d made up for ‘Black Hole’ about
me getting kidnapped by scientists.”

While he may not have been kidnapped the EP sounds like he crept into Jim Noir's recording studio by cover of darkness and stripped all Noir's songs bare, threw them in his bag and skipped out before the Mancunian singer-songwriter woke up.

The lead track on the EP 'Black Holes' , available for download below, is so catchy it should come with a government health warning to wash your ears before you listen to it. It's so good if I didn't know better I'd have thought it was an outtake from Lennon's 'Mind Games' album. The other tracks on the EP don't quite match up to the splendour of 'Black Holes' but, given how good the lead track is, that's no disgrace.

The EP is scheduled for release on PinPrick Records on 13th July and comes highly recommended from the Devil's blog.

Go Try

MP3 - Benbo - Black Hole
If anyone from the IFPI is reading this track is published with the permission of Benbo and Sound and Vision PR so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.

Go Visit

Benbo - Myspace // Website
Label - Pinprick Records // Pinprick Records Myspace

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Benbo
Black Hole



While you're at it check out this track from one of Benbo's former bands The Black Tulips...

MP3 - The Black Tulips - Raining On Prom Night
If anyone from the IFPI is reading this track is linked direct from the Black Tulips website and is therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.