Debt Records

Debt is a company that never chases money over content: we trust that our signings know better than the marketplace about the secrets of musical alchemy – we merely do our best to provide the environment, resources and support necessary to make this happen. We firmly believe that live performance is the only truly lasting musical format, with memory being our sharpest stylus. That said, we are dedicated to releasing unique and spectacular records (in whatever presentation science recommends at the time). Debt Records was set up by a sound engineer, a session player and a songwriter with a shared enmity towards the legion of labels, promoters and managers that are draining the music world of its jouissance – cultural barbarians who exploit their contributors, underestimate their congregation and manipulate Music’s acolytes into deifying the sentimental slush of relentlessly reconstituted pop travesties. Everything in the label is produced in-house, the company has its own studio and session band, an army of film-makers, designers, artists, promoters and experienced writer-musicians that have been working the circuit long enough to know how to cut out the middle-men. We are a creative co-operative that swaps favours, trades skills and shares round the good fortune of our individual members. This isn't a political movement, it's just how all labels would be if they were run by artists instead of businessmen.