Seattle act Chastity Belt is set to release its new album, Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze Records) on March 29, 2024. 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 Julia 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 ^