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Melbourne/Naarm’s Bench Press are excited to announce the release of their third LP, Personal Best – their first new album in more than five years – out Friday 30 August via their long-term musical home, Poison City Records, along with sharing the second album cut, the angular single ‘Filter’. The third album from Bench Press – the band that arrived in 2016 bringing with them an essential dose of oddball, new-wave garage punk and influencing the slew of bands that followed and shaped Melbourne's idiosyncratic punk sound – has been a long time coming. New single ‘Filter’ is a quick thrill of dynamic, pulsating rhythms cut with shard-like guitars and anguished vocals lamenting the fact that the quiet part is always said far too loud. ‘Personal Best’, the band’s third long player, continues to meditate on themes of self and mental health lyrically, but through a new lens, as the album tracks Stavrakis’ journey of making a career change into mental health social work.