Special Benny – Toys

Posted by Indie Music Finds | Posted in Album, Charlie O'Shea, Electro, Independent Music Finds, Other, Rock | Posted on 05-09-2010

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Special Benny, an extraordinary British band I first featured on this blog almost a year ago are finally ready to release their debut ‘Toys’, a largely instrumental 9 track album. Toys has been a long time in the making and nearly didn’t happen at all. Special Benny first released the Rumblestrip EP back in 2006 but the band started to lose momentum as different members followed their seperate paths in life. A send off gig was played and then nothing more until late 2008 when Special Benny discovered a newfound enthusiasm for their music and went onto eventually complete Toys.

Toys opens with Air Filter, an absolutely blinding track released as a single last Autumn that sets the tone for the rest of the album perfectly. Special Benny themselves have said their musical tastes vary greatly and this really comes through in Toys. There’s a certain lucid quality to their sound and it’s hard not to get drawn in by it, particularly in a somewhat repetitive track like Sine and Step. Either way, you can tell right from the first listen how much studio time has gone in to this recording to make Toys exactly what Special Benny had envisaged down to the finest of details. I’m really glad that this band didn’t fall apart before they truly got started, there’s no stopping them now.

Released 6th September 2010.

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alfie saden

WOW! You guys rock! 🙂

I totally agree! Rock on!

This is truly brilliant ! You guys are remarkable…can’t wait to hear your other stuff 🙂

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Thanks bea! And thanks for the lovely and well written review. Bea, we Will start recording the next album in a few months hopefully. Hope you like it too!

i lovelovelove this album. absolutely one of my favourite bands at the moment, right up there with Arcade Fire. i am so hoping that there’ll be more to come.