Living Body is the Leeds-based immigrant-led double-drumming anti-capitalist indie/pop/rock sing-along, whose current live lineup includes includes Jeff T. Smith (f.k.a. juffage), Alice Rowan (Mayshe-Mayshe), Sarah Statham (Crake), Annie Prior (Parker Lee) & Matt Simpson. Other contributors include Katie Harkin (Harkin, Sleater-Kinney, Courtney Barnett) & Tom Evans (Vessels).

Shaped by Smith’s fascination with the contortion of the pop song into a uniquely imaginative and immediate form, his former Midwest-US upbringing and longstanding roots in both US and UK DIY scenes, Living Body infuses timeless melodies warped through an experimental and punk ethos, noise-rock, indie-rock, college-rock, post-rock, shoegaze, Motown.

They have toured extensively throughout the UK, EU and North America including SXSW, Canadian Music Week, Tramlines, Sŵn, Deer Shed, ArcTanGent, Daytrotter and Long Division Festivals. They have received praise from BrooklynVegan, Stereogum, Exclaim!, The Line of Best Fit, Drowned In Sound, the Skinny, For the Rabbits, God Is In The TV and Louder Than War, as well as airplay on BBC 6 Music, Radio 3, Amazing Radio and others.

Following their debut LP "Body Is Working", the group released live-favourite "C.R.E.A.M." (as part of Long Division Festival’s 12″ compilation "New Addition, Vol. 1"), "I Do" (as part of the Kingfisher Bluez 2020 Record Store Day 7″ compilation "Short Songs, Vol. 2") and "Don’t Kill Yourself (It’s Christmas)", a fundraiser for Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service.

In 2023 they returned with an expanded live band, releasing the new single CONSUMER to critical acclaim, including being picked as Track of the Week on BBC Introducing in West Yorkshire. The band also performed as tour support for Owen (Mike Kinsella of American Football), plus one off-shows with Holiday Ghosts and Dolores Forever.

Expanding on the need for music to bring joy into the lives of others in an age of confusion and information overload, Living Body's music expresses the bleak yet positive, immediate yet complex, pessimistic yet hopeful, exhausted yet perseverant state of modern living.

“Living Body are THE most exciting thing happening in the UK music scene” – the Skinny

“Delicate and dramatic indie … they can do high-energy rippers too” – Stereogum

“tsunamis of glee” – The Line of Best Fit

“anthemic” – BrooklynVegan

“The epitome of the modern supergroup” – Louder Than War

“Unique, quirky and beguiling music at its very best and most creative” – NARC Magazine

“Body is Working is a fascinating curio of an album, and quite beautiful in its complexities” – God Is In the TV Zine

“An album that flows beautifully, combining seemingly disparate ideas into a singular and cohesive whole” – For the Rabbits

5 year fathom watches watches,
stillborn every second second,
every biding breath it botches,
every burden bares it's beckon,

"time's the cup that drinks from you,
the carvened starvened quaffing challice,
press it to your lips anew,"
-Virginiana Hammemalis,

5 year fathom weighs the way,
in 1/16th of ever after,
kindle-clocks counting decay,
in oft regurgitated laughter,

"every thought's a treason plot,
a handle hewn in cares grown callous,
picks you up to smash you down,"
-Virginiana Hammemalis,

5 year fathom rode the road,
it's pressures poured into impostures,
each angle set to explode,
in seamy seams of dream imposters,

"drown your druthers cupid-careful,
find no fears and make no malice,
still you simper for a stareful,"
-Virginiana Hammemalis,

5 year fathom rolls the roles,
the marrow-masks that try to wear him,
tumblings take of tithing  tolls,
their irredeemers
set to scare him,

"dampen drove the bridal bridle,
purity's your pleasure pallace,
phallacy's your idle idol,"
-Virginiana Hammemalis,

Juffage is Jeff T. Smith, a sound artist and multi-instrumentalist from Leeds UK, via Chicago, Illinois.

Through relentless touring in the U.S.A., U.K., and Europe, Jeff has established a reputation for his sonically powerful and physically captivating live shows.

His debut album ‘Semicircle’ was released to critical acclaim from the Guardian, NME, Loud & Quiet, Artrocker, and Drowned in Sound, with airplay on BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music.  A recording enthusiast at heart, Jeff has spent time in some of Chicago’s finest studios including Electrical Audio (w/ Steve Albini) and Engine Studios (w/ Brian Deck).

Currently finishing a follow-up LP, he has collaborated with Katie Harkin (Harkin, Sky Larkin, Wild Beasts, Sleater-Kinney), Tom Evans (Vessels) and Jenna Isherwood (Invisible Cities).  Previously, he has shared the stage with artists such as Deerhoof, Balmorhea, Dosh, Mount Eerie, Cloud Nothings, Xiu Xiu, Portico Quartet, Three Trapped Tigers, and Nat Baldwin (Dirty Projectors), and performed at festivals including ArcTanGent, Beacons, Tramlines, In The Woods, Rewire, Carefully Planned, Long Division, and Fell Foot Sound.

"the sound of cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England"

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