CHASTITY BELT'S TIME TO GO HOME OUT NOW! WATCH NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "COOL SLUT"
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VIDEO - "Cool Slut" [dir. Joe Holcomb]
MP3 - "Joke"
VIDEO - "Time to Go Home" [dir. Bobby McHugh]
MP3 - "Time to Go Home"
Time to Go Home , the highly-anticipated and casually provocative new album from Chastity Belt, is out today on CD, LP, and digital formats. To celebrate the occasion, Chastity Belt are sharing their new, charmingly low-tech music video for "Cool Slut," which premiered this morning viaStereogum. In addition, the band will appear at a free, all-ages in-store tomorrow night at 7 PM at Everyday Music in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and perform a live in-studio for KEXP at 1:00 PM PST on Saturday, March 28th--the same night as their album release show with Dude York and Cool Ghouls.
See below for a full list of Chastity Belt's upcoming tour dates, including their May/June concerts with Courtney Barnett and a newly-announced show with former tourmates Wire.
Press quotes:
03.24.15 - Seattle, WA - FREE in-store at Everyday Music, 7pm +
03.28.15 - Seattle, WA - LIVE in-studio on KEXP, 1pm
03.28.15 - Seattle, WA - Highline #
05.18.15 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair ^
05.19.15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
05.20.15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
05.21.15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
05.22.15 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade Records (late show)
05.27.15 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios &
05.29.15 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's % +
05.30.15 - Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy Theater ^
05.31.15 - Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy Theater ^
06.02.14 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah ^
06.03.15 - Tucson, AZ - Hotel Congress
06.05.15 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk ^
06.06.15 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada ^
06.07.15 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks ^
06.08.15 - Tallahassee, FL - Liberty Bar
06.09.15 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl ^
06.12.15 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
06.13.15 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club ^
06.15.15 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer ^
06.18.15 - Ottowa, ON - Ottowa Explosion Weekend
^ - w/ Courtney Barnett
# - Album release show! w/ Dude York, Cool Ghouls, DJ Stacy Peck
& - w/ Twin Peaks
% - w/ Wire
+ - all-ages show
In the outside world, they realized something crucial: they didn’t have to play party songs now that their audience didn’t consist exclusively of inebriated 18-22 year olds, as it did in that college town. Though still built on a foundation of post-post-punk energy, jagged rhythms, and instrumental moves that couldn’t be anyone else’s, the songs they grew into in the months that followed are equal parts street-level takedown and gray-skied melancholy. They embody the sensation of being caught in the center of a moment while floating directly above it; Shapiro’s world spins around her on “On The Floor,” grounded by Grimm and Truscott’s most commanding playing committed to tape. They pay tribute to writer Sheila Heti on “Drone” and John Carpenter with “The Thing,” and deliver a parallel-universe stoner anthem influenced by Electrelane with “Joke.”
Recorded by José Díaz Rohena at the Unknown, a deconsecrated church and former sail factory in Anacortes, and mixed with a cathedral’s worth of reverb by Matthew Simms (guitarist for legendary British post-punks and one-time tourmates Wire), Time to Go Home sees Chastity Belt take the nights out and bad parties of their past to their stretching points, watch the world around them break apart in anticipatory haze, and rebuild it in their own image with stunning clarity before anyone gets hungover.
VIDEO - "Cool Slut" [dir. Joe Holcomb]
MP3 - "Joke"
VIDEO - "Time to Go Home" [dir. Bobby McHugh]
MP3 - "Time to Go Home"
Time to Go Home , the highly-anticipated and casually provocative new album from Chastity Belt, is out today on CD, LP, and digital formats. To celebrate the occasion, Chastity Belt are sharing their new, charmingly low-tech music video for "Cool Slut," which premiered this morning viaStereogum. In addition, the band will appear at a free, all-ages in-store tomorrow night at 7 PM at Everyday Music in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and perform a live in-studio for KEXP at 1:00 PM PST on Saturday, March 28th--the same night as their album release show with Dude York and Cool Ghouls.
See below for a full list of Chastity Belt's upcoming tour dates, including their May/June concerts with Courtney Barnett and a newly-announced show with former tourmates Wire.
Press quotes:
"This is feminism as fact; as default...It's the evolution of how young women impart vitally important information." -- NPR
Best of What's Next -- Paste
"They're funny, and slightly goofy, and gently vulgar, and they play with an appealingly loose, relaxed confidence." -- Pitchfork
"Pretty much every line is genius" -- Paper Magazine
"The band has grown from a one-time college experiment into a legitimate fixture of contemporary West Coast punk." -- Impose
"The record is very, very good." -- The FADER
"Full of restless energy and dark, melancholy vibes." -- Buzzfeed
"Digs even deeper into a jaded melancholia that they only scratched the surface of on their debut." -- Stereogum
Album of the Month -- City Arts
Tour dates: Best of What's Next -- Paste
"They're funny, and slightly goofy, and gently vulgar, and they play with an appealingly loose, relaxed confidence." -- Pitchfork
"Pretty much every line is genius" -- Paper Magazine
"The band has grown from a one-time college experiment into a legitimate fixture of contemporary West Coast punk." -- Impose
"The record is very, very good." -- The FADER
"Full of restless energy and dark, melancholy vibes." -- Buzzfeed
"Digs even deeper into a jaded melancholia that they only scratched the surface of on their debut." -- Stereogum
Album of the Month -- City Arts
03.24.15 - Seattle, WA - FREE in-store at Everyday Music, 7pm +
03.28.15 - Seattle, WA - LIVE in-studio on KEXP, 1pm
03.28.15 - Seattle, WA - Highline #
05.18.15 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair ^
05.19.15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
05.20.15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
05.21.15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
05.22.15 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade Records (late show)
05.27.15 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios &
05.29.15 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's % +
05.30.15 - Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy Theater ^
05.31.15 - Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy Theater ^
06.02.14 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah ^
06.03.15 - Tucson, AZ - Hotel Congress
06.05.15 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk ^
06.06.15 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada ^
06.07.15 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks ^
06.08.15 - Tallahassee, FL - Liberty Bar
06.09.15 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl ^
06.12.15 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
06.13.15 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club ^
06.15.15 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer ^
06.18.15 - Ottowa, ON - Ottowa Explosion Weekend
^ - w/ Courtney Barnett
# - Album release show! w/ Dude York, Cool Ghouls, DJ Stacy Peck
& - w/ Twin Peaks
% - w/ Wire
+ - all-ages show
About the record:
Chastity Belt is a rock band consisting of four friends - guitarists Julia Shapiro and Lydia Lund, bassist Annie Truscott, and drummer Gretchen Grimm. They met in a tiny college town in Eastern Washington, but their story begins for real in Seattle, that celebrated home of Macklemore and the Twelfth Man. Following a post-grad summer apart, a handful of shows and enthusiastic responses from the city’s DIY community led them, as it has countless others, into a cramped practice space. They emerged with a debut album, No Regerts, sold it out faster than anyone involved thought possible, and toured America, a country that embraced them with open-ish arms. Now they’re back and the tab is settled, the lights are out, the birds are making noise even though the sun isn’t really up yet: it’s Time to Go Home, their second long-player and first for Hardly Art.In the outside world, they realized something crucial: they didn’t have to play party songs now that their audience didn’t consist exclusively of inebriated 18-22 year olds, as it did in that college town. Though still built on a foundation of post-post-punk energy, jagged rhythms, and instrumental moves that couldn’t be anyone else’s, the songs they grew into in the months that followed are equal parts street-level takedown and gray-skied melancholy. They embody the sensation of being caught in the center of a moment while floating directly above it; Shapiro’s world spins around her on “On The Floor,” grounded by Grimm and Truscott’s most commanding playing committed to tape. They pay tribute to writer Sheila Heti on “Drone” and John Carpenter with “The Thing,” and deliver a parallel-universe stoner anthem influenced by Electrelane with “Joke.”
Recorded by José Díaz Rohena at the Unknown, a deconsecrated church and former sail factory in Anacortes, and mixed with a cathedral’s worth of reverb by Matthew Simms (guitarist for legendary British post-punks and one-time tourmates Wire), Time to Go Home sees Chastity Belt take the nights out and bad parties of their past to their stretching points, watch the world around them break apart in anticipatory haze, and rebuild it in their own image with stunning clarity before anyone gets hungover.