Living Body release new single "NO DEBT"
Leeds-based collective Living Body have released their new single, "NO DEBT". The single comes with a live session video and an 11-date UK headline tour, as well as a performance at Sŵn Festival.
"NO DEBT" is a song about the abolition of debt, inspired by the US president's campaign pledge to eliminate student debt and its subsequent crumbling under the weight of right-wing and corporate influence. In its simplest sense, the song is about how all education should be free.
The single also examines how multinational tech companies increasingly insert themselves into everyday life, challenging the need for traditional higher education while undermining reality and human connection.
Talking about the track songwriter Jeff T. Smith said:
“On one hand, who really needs a university education when you can find the answer to anything on a screen in your pocket?
But should we really place our entire basis for truth in the hands of one large profit-driven corporation? Ultimately, this poses quite serious future concerns surrounding our relationship to truth, facts, deepfakes, AI and corporate power.”
"NO DEBT" is the band's second single of 2023, following their previous single "CONSUMER".
Living Body are a unique and innovative band, infusing timeless pop melodies with an experimental and punk ethos. Their music is a joyful expression of the bleak yet positive, immediate yet complex, pessimistic yet hopeful, exhausted yet perseverant state of modern living.
Catch Living Body on their UK Tour, and watch the live session for “NO DEBT”:
Upcoming UK tour
November 1: Brighton - The Prince Albert (w/ Perch)
November 2: London - New Cross Inn (w/ Rubie & Winifer Odd)
November 3: Birmingham - The Victoria (w/ Overcliff)
November 4: Bristol - The Exchange (w/ Lifter)
November 16: Newcastle - Cumberland Arms (w/ Waves of Dread, Madeleine Smyth)
November 17: Glasgow - Glad Cafe (w/ Come Outside)
November 18: Stockton-on-Tees - Georgian Theatre (w/ Walt Disco, Gallus, Mi Mye, etc)
November 22: Salford - The Eagle Inn (w/ Real Terms, Oort Clod)
November 23: Liverpool - Kazimier Stockroom (w/ Real Terms)
November 24: Nottingham - JT Soar (w/ Real Terms, Kaliugah)
November 25: Leeds - Wharf Chambers (w/ Real Terms, Jooloosooboo)
