Kevin Bronson on February 6th, 2020

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“Living Off Love,” the new single from L.A. indie-pop posse Karmic, is for those moments you’re walking on air, completely intoxicated by the company of another, tapping your heels together in glee (if your feet aren’t busy doing something else).

The follow-up to November’s “Little Lucille,” it exemplifies Karmic’s distinctive sound: playful, with a relentless groove, the percussive vocals of Kylee Katch and Laura Baruch flitting around the beats like the biggest flirt on the dancefloor. “Living Off Love” has an endearing nursery rhyme quality; it’s no surprise to learn that the song was hatched during an impromptu hand-clap session during a lakeside retreat in rural Austria last summer.

With their debut EP “This Is Karmic” and a European tour having bumped the band toward a larger audience last year, they’re at work on a full-length album, planned for a summer release.

For that certain February holiday, though, there’s this lyrical box of chocolates: “You’re making me weak in the knees / They buckle every time you squeeze me / Like a fruit I’m always ripe with you / Now we’re rolling on the foamy floor / You bite lip and now I’m sure that / This is real and I want nothing more.”

Love may not pay the the bills, but as “Living Off Love” suggests, it’s a currency all its own.

The song officially releases on Friday.

||| Stream: “Living Off Love”

||| Also: Watch the video for “With You”

||| Previously: “Little Lucille,” “Wisdom Pie”