Chastity Belt – Laugh
This Friday, March 29, 2024, influential Seattle act Chastity Belt will release their new album, Live Laugh Love, via Suicide Squeeze Records.
Today, the noise pop act has also shared the record’s final single, “Laugh,” which taps into a blunt, yet breezy side of the band’s sound.
It came to life while singer Jullia Shapiro was living in a punk house in Washington, right as Covid lockdowns were lifting. Community helped her break out of a tough headspace, and the song celebrates a summer full of friendship that felt too good to be true even as it was happening. “When I lose myself again / With the little thoughts in my head / Remember that summer we spent living instead / I wanted it to last, but it’s all in my head,” she sings on the chorus, before the song bursts into a cathartic, dreamy outro. “Laugh” emphasizes Chastity Belt’s ability to underline cheekiness with personable sincerity.
On the track, member Julia Shapiro offers: “I wrote this song during the summer of 2021 when I was still technically living in LA, but I spent the whole summer in Seattle living at a punk house (Spruce) with my friends. It was a really special summer, and I could feel that while it was happening. I’d been feeling pretty lonely in LA, and it had been a long year and a half of Covid, so it felt like this much needed time to be around old friends. The song is about that time, and being nostalgic for it while it was still happening, which is something I tend to do.”
See below for Chastity Belt’s upcoming US, EU + UK 2024 tour dates this spring & summer w/ support from Charlotte Cornfield, Peel Dream Magazine and Meagre Martin.
Live Dates
* = w/ Charlotte Cornfield
# = w/ Peel Dream Magazine
^ = w/ Meagre Martin
April 4 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall #
April 5 – Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Arts #
April 6 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk #
April 8 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf #
April 9 – Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole #
April 10 – San Diego, CA @ Quartyard #
April 11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram
April 13 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent #
April 16 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom #
April 17 – Vancouver, BC @ Fox Theater # (sold out)
April 18 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile #
April 19 – Olympia, WA @ Capital Theater #
May 3 – Asheville, NC @ Eulogy *
May 4 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat *
May 5 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *
May 7 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw *
May 8 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair *
May 9 – Albany, NY @ Lark Hall *
May 10 – Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall *
May 11 – Detroit, MI @ El Club *
May 12 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
May 29 – Vienna, AT @ Arena ^
May 30 – Leipzig, DE @ Conne Island ^
May 31 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz ^
June 1 – Neustrelitz, DE @ Immergut Festival
June 3 – Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn ^
June 4 – Luxembourg, LUX @ Rotondes ^
June 5 – Paris, FR @ La Flèche D’Or ^
June 6 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
June 7 – Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret Festival
June 8 – Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin ^
June 9 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club ^
June 11 – Glasgow, UK @ Room 2 ^
June 12 – Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute ^
June 13 – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew ^
June 14 – London, UK @ Village Underground ^
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