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Chastity

by chastity

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1.
Jaw Locked 03:58
Same room long distance Avoidant attachment I think mine's anxious So what even happens Next? The first shot Went off I could see myself fall Worse off Getting up Tryna stop it all I got Jaw locked Oh I got Jaw locked Ok what is it redundant affection? Well then you've heard it Can I repeat myself Then? The first shot Went off I could see myself fall Worse off Getting up Tryna stop it all I got Jaw locked Oh I got Jaw locked
2.
I'm light headed Walking the high wire I look back and it Friggin starts on fire I'll toe the line, Make it all go quiet I always feel like I'm on the outside Looking in But no not this time I'll climb up as high As i can Where i can see everything I wanna see everything I'll climb The electrical tower If i survive I'll shower Your house with flowers On my way down Never said it, I guess I've dreamt of flying Well I guess, Now is my time! I'll toe the line Make it all go quiet! I always feel like I'm on the outside Looking in But no not this time I'll climb up as high As I can Where I can see everything I wanna see everything I'll climb the electrical tower If I survive I will shower Your house with flowers On my way down
3.
Throwing hands in my sleep My hair was cut, it was buzzed and bleached Tossing, trying, shooting sheep Why is it a million degrees? My walls are up, But not high enough I'm all shut off And this is where i'm stuck? The sun's been gone six months! Taking slams, I got bloody knees Blacked out knocked out my front teeth But I finally got to feel some peace It put me out of my misery My walls are up, But not high enough I'm all shut off And this is where i'm stuck? The sun stayed up six months Then all good feeling's gone Would you want to know everything at once? Or nothing at all? Would you want to feel everything at once? Or never at all?
4.
Summer all over again And I am Still stuck in my own head Summer all over again And I am Still stuck in my own head Is it My temperament? I know it isn't 10 out of 10 I try to manage But I feel panic I've tried it all except I can't just vanish Summer all over again And I am Still stuck in my own head Running from everything I can't Just live in the moment I'm nostalgic For things I wish For That haven't even happened yet I try to manage But I feel panic I tried it all except I can't just vanish It's like I'm missing things Even as they're happening Right in front of me Summer all over again And I am Still fucked in my own head Summer all over again And I am Still stuck in my own head Running from everything I can't Just live in the moment Summer all over again And I am Still stuck in my own head
5.
Your voice cracked And I felt your words Crawl down my back It slowed my world I let you feel bad I'm not proud of that Teeth on the curb Looking up at the world For all I lack I sure got hurt And I give it back It slows my world I make myself bad Why would I do that? Teeth on the curb Looking up at the world Now we're climbing that hill And I'm running behind Tilt my head back and yell Will anything make me right? Teeth on the curb Looking up at the world The world will still turn after it's my turn Now we're running that hell And I'm falling behind Tilt my head back and yell Will anything make me right?
6.
There are missing years Where I haven't got any pictures Not even sure I was there It emptied my soul My body went hollow Been waiting for years On a better tomorrow All alone, I struggle I wish you were here And I Wish that i could just tell you That you made me so much better It emptied my soul My body went hollow Been for waiting years On a better tomorrow All alone, I struggle Death by a thousand cuts As though that's not enough I'm barely hanging on More rough just to come It's not just tough love I'm barely hanging on
7.
Offing 03:03
It was often I'd think of offing Myself Getting my meds mixed Advil for depression Ibuprofen For all my suffering I'm not afraid of what I want I am afraid it's already gone I've tried to change my mind A hundred times Or like ninety-ninety Am I one away from My spirit getting high? I could die I'm not afraid of what I want I am afraid it's already gone The more I pick At the scab The more I'm sick At how it started If you got approval I want it If you got approval I want it If you got approval I want it If you got approval I want it If you got approval I want it If you got approval I want it If you got approval I want it If you got approval I want it
8.
Hanging out the car window, I almost got my head smoked On the hill, top of the world, Out of it, out of control That's when life had us all By our throats That's until we made them Let us go We were heading in To a tailspin In a speeding car with nobody driving Like a moment You can hand pick But you can never get back there again I want A life less severe Want a Coin picked out From behind my ear, A headlock To make me see stars then make me disappear When everybody around here Was just as weird 3 hits off a white board marker, I was like alright i want it harder I've tried everything that you said was pure Alright I want it harder Got my hair trimmed In the kitchen It was sick, with the check mark in it Like a moment You can hand pick But you can never get back there again I want A life less severe Want a Coin picked out from behind my ear, A headlock To make me see stars then make me disappear When everyone around here Was just as weird I just want a life much less severe
9.
I'm not the only hell That my parents raised In this house I'm shell shocked now Ever since that day I watch out Kept a knife under my mattress Because the pastor said There's something in our basement It's as if that man was acting Seeing evil in each other And I wanted to be dead What if I'm unwell? Can everyone tell? What if word gets out? Demon's in the house Straight out Of his mouth THE DEVIL THE DEVIL Became what I was afraid of Or I just became myself Brought home some friends that helped They melt me down, they built me up Could finally tell who I could trust There is no hell, if it's all of us I was moved to hear the truth That is not what I'm used to What if I'm unwell? Can everyone tell? What if word gets out? Demon's in the house S traight out Of his mouth THE DEVIL THE DEVIL Demons in the house Demons in the house Demons in the house Demons in the house I'm either feeling dead Or terribly over it If I ever wicked I'll do it with my friends Demons in the house Demons in the house Demons in the house Demons in the house
10.
Always had dark circles around my eyes, Dark thoughts just came with my mind The nice days aren't working, not once in a while I'm gone, but i know I'll find I haven't got the strength! To stop this pain I'm not afraid Of that feeling I am in a state! It's embarrassing Does that make Me a weakling? Guess I always have been I want to feel high, I feel barely alive Spent all my time, trying to get right I haven't got the strength! To stop this pain I'm not afraid Of that feeling I am in a state! It's embarrassing Does that make Me a weakling? Guess I always have been I know You think there's something wrong with me But you don't Gotta say it so Condescendingly I haven't got the strength! To stop this pain I'm not afraid Of that feeling I am in a state! It's embarrassing Does that make Me a weakling? Guess I always have been
11.
Free For All 02:23
Nowhere Everywhere All at once! I was Overwhelmed Fucking up! Here there Unprepared Undone! I was Overwhelmed Fucking up! The inmates Will take The penitentiary! Snatching keys They'll be free! Nowhere Everywhere All at once! I was Overwhelmed Fucking up! Today is the day To get it straight Missed opportunity! It makes me sick to think It won't go differently I've waited all too long Scared to do it wrong! Now it's done And it's a free for all! FREE FOR ALL! FREE FOR ALL! FREE FOR ALL! FREE FOR ALL!
12.
Lake Ontario 02:28
Swung the rope I cannonball Bad angle Water down my throat Left the water on Swimming through my home I just want To be somewhere close I thought I heard the sound Of you coming around I choked Lungs full Of lake Ontario No hope Speeding up slow-mo Lungs full Of lake Ontario No hope Speeding up slow-mo Would my body float, Or swallow me whole? Is there no hope? At the bottom of it all Lungs full Of lake Ontario
13.
Drawing the sun back in the corner of the paper As good as gone, someone erased it You keep Showing up for me And I can be myself That's who i'm trying to be I showed up damaged beyond belief You didn't hold it against me You just believed in me Drawing the sun back in the corner of the paper I'm looking up, trying not to waste it Breaking off a rose Out front of a bigger home Something to give you Because I got none I showed up damaged beyond belief You didn't hold it against me You just believed in me Drawing the sun back in the corner of the paper You were looking out, I wanted to thank you Are you feeling gloomy Even when you're with me? If I come home this weekend Would you wanna do something?

about

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 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. The band recorded at Peters’ Private Ear Recording in Winnipeg in March 2024. Chastity’s guitars have never sounded so immediate and towering, sometimes exploding into a sputtering, ripped-speaker chaos; and there are perhaps the most ferocious bass and drums sounds of the year on Chastity, splitting the difference between gnarly-as-fuck generator-show tones and vividly textured, hi-fi chest-beaters.

The new record arrives on the heels of a whirlwind six years for Chastity. Williams founded the project in Whitby Ontario. From the start, it's been a project of absolution via community connection. There weren’t any venues for independent punk music in the suburban town, so Williams and his friends started throwing punk shows in a barn on Whitby’s rural outskirts. People took notice: Before long, Ontario punk stalwarts like PUP and Metz were making the pilgrimage to the barn to headline gigs, and profits from the shows went to a regional youth mental health services. Chastity spent the next years touring North America including shows with Sunny Day Real Estate, Alexisonfire, and Deafheaven, culminating in their spring 2024 headline run, with a set that synced to an original feature film projected behind the stage.

This new era begins on opener “Jaw Locked” with a single tom strike and a wall of glorious, pounding major-key guitars. It drives forward, relentless and crackling with energy, while Williams revisits the feeling of voiceless loneliness—with a full, determined belt. He wants to hear people scream it with him. “I think the idea of people singing along with me about a time in my life where I was feeling like my voice didn’t count for anything is a relief for me,” he says. “It’s like the circle has been closed in a way, it’s like finally the lonely can all be together.”

Follow-up “Electrical Tower Dive” finds Chastity’s first official lyric use of “friggin’” tucked into a harrowing retelling of the first time Williams confronted, and re-considered, an early end to his life. Single “Bleached and Buzzed” follows it with a classic skate-punk thrash that seizes with anticipation and anxiety, before spilling into the massive, instant singalong “Summer All Over Again,” where Williams laments an inability to fully enjoy even the most brilliant of warm, sunny days: “Summer all over again/And I am still stuck in my own head.”

The record closes with “Drawing the Sun Back in the Corner of the Paper,” a patient, atmospheric, hopeful slow-burn about opening back up to life and living (as Williams describes it, extending the contract with life) thanks to the care and support of another. In Williams’ case, he credits his partner, the musician Linnea Siggelkow, whose care made him want to check in on others who need it, too.

It’s a beautiful and affirming ending to a Chastity record, centered on the band’s first and enduring idea: Life is less shitty if we live it together.

credits

released September 13, 2024

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

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