Chastity

Canadian emo/alt-rockers Chastity have announce their new 13 track self titled LP due Sept. 13, 2024 via Deathwish Inc. (USA) / Dine Alone Records (CA) / Big Scary Monsters (UK/EUR). 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.” Along with the album announcement, Chastity album opener "Jaw Locked" has been unleashed for streaming below. Williams continues, "For a few years we've closed our live show with the same song, but we've never really had a song that opens our live show totally right. I am so excited that we've found that in this song 'Jaw Locked', and that we can open the self-titled album with this song as well."

Chastity 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. 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.

RIYL: Teenage Wrist, Basement, Jimmy Eat World, Title Fight