Fake / Fear the band’s new single, picks up where their self-titled fourth album left off. A mantra sits at the heart of ‘Fake’, on which Julia Shapiro examines her inability to be vulnerable. “I’m a fake,” she sings repeatedly, as she takes stock of a situation in which all language broke down and communication failed. “The song is about not being able to be honest with someone and say what you mean,” she explains. “I wrote it because...
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Chastity Belt (Seattle / LA) have announced Fake / Fear – a limited 7″ to be self-released worldwide and on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records in Australia. Along with the news, the band share an anthem-of-a-single ‘Fear‘, accompanied by a mystically triumphant video directed by Eleanor Petry. About ‘Fear’, Chastity Belt member Lydia Lund says: “I wrote the song a few summers ago based around a dream I had. At one point in the dream, I was opening door after door, noticing the fear build, then dissipate upon opening,...
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Chastity Belt and Loose Tooth have shared a “digital split single” today featuring new material from both acts: Chastity Belt’s A Side ‘The Process’ and Loose Tooth‘s B side ‘Lonely.’ Fifty percent of Bandcamp sales for either track will benefit Australian wildfire relief efforts, specifically the Red Cross and Country Fire Authority. Purchase here. Additionally, Chastity Belt and Loose Tooth hit the road together for a run of North American...
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Chastity Belt share the final single before the release of their new self-titled album on 20 September ~ ‘Drown.’ The lush new track has roots in the band’s early years. Singer/guitarist Julia Shapiro says “I started writing “Drown” back when I was 23… so almost 6 years ago. It came together with the band a few years later. It feels good to finally put it out into the world! Everyone’s parts on it...
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Chastity Belt drop another new song off their forthcoming self titled album, out 20 September via Milk! Records. ‘Elena‘ is a lush bed of instrumentals, with Lydia Lund and Julia Shapiro exchanging signature CB harmonies over the top. Bassist Annie Truscott says of the song “Over the past year, we all read and loved Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels. We individually related to the ways in which the main character’s sense...
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It’s a total pleasure to announce the signing of Chastity Belt to Milk! Records for Australia and New Zealand! Their self titled third record is out 20 September. Chastity Belt’s energy is like a circuit, circling around the silly and the sincere. Tongue-in-cheek shit-shooting and existential rumination feed into each other infinitely. Theirs is a long-term relationship, and that loop sustains them. That’s a creative thesis in and of itself, but...
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