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Chastity is for the skids, the headbangers, the freaks. Chastity is for everyone who has suffered and survived the lethal combination of suburban overculture and mental distress. Chastity is especially for everyone who didn’t survive—the ones who didn’t get out. Brandon Williams did, luckily, and his work with Chastity has been to collect people like him, who got out by the skin of their teeth.
Chastity’s first three full-length records—2018’s Death Lust, 2019’s Home Made Satan, and 2022’s Suffer Summer—formed a trilogy that defined a 4-year arc of the band’s contribution to outsider music. Each record was informed by Williams’ life, but each was also conceptual and interpretive, refracting his experiences through a level of remove. On Chastity’s upcoming, self-titled fourth record, there is no such distance: Williams decided to write a fully non-fiction work. Out Friday, September 13 2024 on Deathwish (US), Dine Alone (Canada), and Big Scary Monsters (UK/E) ‘Chastity’ is a 13-track record about the things that have always run through the band’s records—struggle, death, despair, redemption, darkness, and light—but this time, the songs ascend to new depths of intensity and desperation, new heights of resolution and power. “It’s really about the first nosedive that I did as a young... more released September 13, 2024 Meer... |
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Produced by Brandon Williams Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by John Paul Peters at Private Ear Recording Vocals Engineered by Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack Written by Brandon Williams, Scott Downes, Stefan Babcock Lyrics by Brandon Williams Performed by Brandon Williams, Scott Downes, Levi Kertesz and Devon Savas Additional Vocals performed by Linnea Siggelkow, Charlotte Nurse, Scott Downes, Devon Savas, Callum Crombie, Ruby Hoewling, Geoff Scott Strings performed by John Paul Peters Cover Photo by Cathy Williams and Brandon Williams Cover Photo Illustration by Matty Rivera |