Some places and landscapes shape you and don't want to let you go. For Benjamin Woods, Cornwall is one of those places. The place of his youth, to which he returned when he lost his job at the Tate Modern Bar in London during the pandemic. There, where thousands of tourists spend their holidays, while a large number of locals will probably never be able to afford one, the only free job for him was as an unskilled worker on a construction site. It was located in one of the darkest corners of Truro, where the constant sirens punctuate the scenery of the slow-growing houses that will soon promise affordable housing in Cornwall's capital. While the Golden Dregs' second album »Hope for the Hopeless« (2019) was still completely immersed in personal pain, Benjamin looks at his homeland on his 4AD debut »On Grace and Dignity« and explores what it means to be shaped by it. In addition to personal reflections on the loss of innocence and on his own inferiority, Benjamin interweaves his stories with themes such as survival, desperate outbreaks of violence, loss and the incisions in the community, in the eye of drastic gentrification. And he presents all this with a voice that resonates with the unearthly wisdom of a Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) or a David Berman (Silver Jews). In the meantime, Benjamin has returned to London, but with his new album »On Grace and Dignity« and a miniature model of Cornwall built by model artist Edie Lawrence, who has also worked on artwork for the Idles and Jamie T, he always has his home close to him today. Each song on the album is set in a corner of the fictional Cornish town of the model featured on the cover.