Health&Beauty Share New Single Riverside Cemetery

Health&Beauty have shared their new single, Riverside Cemetery.

The track is lifted from the band's Wichita debut album, 'No Scare', which is set for release on August 5. Discussing the song, which you can check out below, the band's Brian J. Sulpizio said:

"Riverside Cemetery is the name of the largest cemetery in my hometown, Defiance, Ohio. My dad's parents are buried there. A couple years ago I moved back there for a summer. I applied for food stamps and, if you are able-bodied, they send you to cut the grass at the cemetery or some similar job. They divide your benefit amount by minimum wage and you go and work for that number of hours. For me it ended up being two and a half days per month. Many people thought this was not enough time. I thought, as long as I was working, they should give me a paycheck instead of food stamps.
 
It was not only food stamp recipients working at the cemetery but also prisoners on work release and people serving community service. The man who I thought was the boss was actually a sort of superintendent; he was an older man who drove the truck around, but he was only there working off a drunk driving fine. The actual boss was a guy in his late 20s who we barely saw, but he would come out of his office in the morning to harass the prisoners. I think he thought he was doing an especially good job by contributing to their punishment. The work was pretty fun and those of us in the field had good talking time at lunch breaks. ”

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