Chastity by Chastity
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.
On Chastity’s upcoming, self-titled fourth record, there is no such distance: Williams decided to write a fully non-fiction work — about 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 person,” says Williams. “It’s a record about struggle, about the missing years. It’s also a thank you to some people in my life.”
The record hurtles through melodic hardcore, shoegaze, and emo, all magnificently and enormously rendered thanks to slick work from John Paul Peters (Propagandhi, Comeback Kid), who engineered and mixed the record, bringing to life a beautiful and affirming ending to it’s closer, centered on the band’s first and enduring idea: life is less shitty if we live it together.
Tracklist
| 1. | Jaw Locked | 3:58 |
| 2. | Electrical Tower Dive | 3:42 |
| 3. | Buzzed and Bleached | 1:59 |
| 4. | Summer All Over Again | 2:57 |
| 5. | Teeth On The Curb Looking Up At The World | 3:14 |
| 6. | There Are Missing Years | 2:59 |
| 7. | Offing | 3:03 |
| 8. | Life Less Severe | 3:46 |
| 9. | Demons In The House | 2:52 |
| 10. | The Dark Circles Around My Eyes | 2:46 |
| 11. | Free For All | 2:24 |
| 12. | Lake Ontario | 2:29 |
| 13. | Drawing The Sun Back In The Corner Of The Paper | 3:04 |
Credits
Chastity S/T
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
