{"title":"Chastity Belt","description":"\u003cp\u003eChastity Belt is an indie rock band formed in Walla Walla, Washington, USA. The band consists of Julia Shapiro on guitar and vocals, Lydia Lund on guitar, Annie Truscott on bass, and Gretchen Grimm on drums. Currently based in Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir music has gained popularity for its unique blend of indie rock sound with introspective lyrics. Chastity Belt's songs explore themes of self-discovery, relationships, and personal growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith their captivating live performances and critically acclaimed albums such as \"Time to Go Home\" and \"I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone,\" Chastity Belt has established themselves as a prominent figure in the indie rock scene.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"no-regerts-10th-anniversary-edition-2","title":"No Regrets (10th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn December 29, 2012, three songs into Chastity Belt's first KEXP in-studio, something extraordinary happened: they shared \"Black Sail\" with the world. That year, I'd seen Chastity Belt play countless basement, bar, and DIY shows all over Seattle, but nothing could've prepared me for how my friends turned patience and quiet observation into something so affecting and effortlessly cool. Ten years later, \"Black Sail\" isn't just a fan favorite–it's practically a statement of purpose for the great albums that followed. But before those records, there was No Regerts: the sound of four friends evolving from a party band into a \"real\" one (whatever that means) in real-time. They're above it all on \"Seattle Party,\" \"Happiness,\" and \"Evil,\" but remain the sirens of Whitman College's cursed frat houses–see the explosive choruses of \"James Dean,\" \"Healthy Punk,\" and \"Pussy Weed Beer.\" When No Regerts came out in the summer of 2013, Seattle–and the world at large–took notice. I still hear these songs in surprising places, and they still surprise me–just as they did a decade ago. If you missed out the first time, this is your second chance. “No Regerts sounds young and callow and smart and horny all at the same time. Playing it feels like a night out.” PITCHFORK \/\/ “No Regerts often centered around a riot grrrl ethos of female empowerment and rebellion…” PASTE MAGAZINE \/\/ “With complex interlocking guitar lines, slower tempos, and a consistently tumultuous musical atmosphere, No Regerts recalls the work of early-'90s bands...” ALL MUSIC\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suicide Squeeze","offers":[{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50393834455371,"sku":"2051301","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Chastity_Belt_-_No_Regerts_10th_Anniversary_Edition_028a7932_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726428235"},{"product_id":"live-laugh-love","title":"Live Laugh Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn their decade-plus together, the four-piece Julia Shapiro (guitar, vocals), Lydia Lund (guitar, vocals), Gretchen Grimm (drums, vocals), and Annie Truscott (bass, vocals)—have created a resonant body of work. \u003ci\u003eLive Laugh Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a natural continuation. Against the bizarre backdrop of the past few years, Chastity Belt remained a supportive space for the members to grow and experiment, drawing on the ingredients most essential to their process since the beginning: authenticity and levity. Recorded over three sessions in as many years (January 2020, November 2021 and 2022), the focus became more about enjoying their time together in the studio than making it feel like work. Their ease and familiarity with engineer Samur Khouja in LA, who also recorded their last album, made for a particularly enjoyable process. Once completed, they returned to renowned engineer Heba Kadry who mastered the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLive Laugh Love\u003c\/i\u003e finds the members in their prime as musicians. Their parts trace intricate patterns over one another, but there’s room to breathe between the layers. Everyone contributes to the writing, sometimes switching instruments, and for the first time, all four members sing a song. It’s never been more apparent that they are creative siblings, cut from the same belt. “We’ve been playing music with each other for over a decade,” says Shapiro, “so it really does feel like we’re all fluent in the same language, and a lot of it just happens naturally.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suicide Squeeze","offers":[{"title":"Blue LP | Signed Copy","offer_id":50401419329867,"sku":"2167388","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50401418903883,"sku":"2167386","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50401418772811,"sku":"2167384","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Chastity_Belt_-_Live_Laugh_Love_a867c680_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726522141"},{"product_id":"no-regerts-10th-anniversary-edition","title":"No Regerts (10th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn December 29, 2012, three songs into Chastity Belt's first KEXP in-studio, something extraordinary happened: they shared \"Black Sail\" with the world. That year, I'd seen Chastity Belt play countless basement, bar, and DIY shows all over Seattle, but nothing could've prepared me for how my friends turned patience and quiet observation into something so affecting and effortlessly cool. Ten years later, \"Black Sail\" isn't just a fan favorite–it's practically a statement of purpose for the great albums that followed. But before those records, there was No Regerts: the sound of four friends evolving from a party band into a \"real\" one (whatever that means) in real-time. They're above it all on \"Seattle Party,\" \"Happiness,\" and \"Evil,\" but remain the sirens of Whitman College's cursed frat houses–see the explosive choruses of \"James Dean,\" \"Healthy Punk,\" and \"Pussy Weed Beer.\" When No Regerts came out in the summer of 2013, Seattle–and the world at large–took notice. I still hear these songs in surprising places, and they still surprise me–just as they did a decade ago. If you missed out the first time, this is your second chance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suicide Squeeze","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50434667807051,"sku":"2046029","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Chastity_Belt_-_No_Regerts_10th_Anniversary_Edition_950e1d3f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726892849"},{"product_id":"chastity-belt","title":"Chastity Belt","description":"\u003cp\u003eChastity Belt talks a lot about intention these days—how to be more present with each other. The four piece—Julia Shapiro (vocals, guitar, drums), Lydia Lund (vocals, guitar), Gretchen Grimm (drums, vocals, guitar) and Annie Truscott (bass)—is nine years deep in this, after all. It seems now, more than ever, that circuit is a movement of intentionality, one that creates a space inside which they can be themselves, among themselves. It’s a space where the euphoria of making music with your best friends is protected from the outside world’s churning expectations. It’s a kind of safe zone for the band to occupy as their best selves: a group of friends who love each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir fourth record, \u003ci\u003eChastity Belt\u003c\/i\u003e, comes out of that safe space. After a restorative few months on hiatus in 2018, each member worked on solo material or toured with other bands. “So much of the break was reminding ourselves to stay present, and giving ourselves permission to stop without saying when were gonna meet up again,” says guitarist Lydia Lund. “It was so important to have that—not saying, ‘we’re gonna get back together at this point,’ but really just open it up so we could get back to our present connection.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir experience navigating adult life within the strange seasons of the music industry has Chastity Belt orienting themselves towards whatever gets them to feel the most present with each other, in any part of the band grind. With the luxury of spending several weeks in the studio with Jay Som’s Melina Duterte, Chastity Belt was able to experiment. The new self-titled album is the work of the band playing “old songs, and trying new things on top of it,” like adding more dynamic harmonies and violin, says bassist Annie Truscott. Lydia, Gretchen, and Julia all share lead vocals on different tracks on the album. The result is their most sonically developed and nuanced record yet; one that’s not only a product of, but a series of reflections on what it means to take what you need and to understand yourself better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of Chastity Belt’s signature dynamics, from the silly to the sincere, have read as feminist gestures: the Cool Slut DGAF-iness, the shrugging off of the “women in rock” press gargle, the fundamentally punk act of creating music on your own as a woman, and being lyrically forthright. What the making of \u003ci\u003eChastity Belt\u003c\/i\u003e reveals is that the band has tapped into a deeper tradition of women making art on their terms: the act of self-preservation in favor of the long game. In favour of each other. In this cultural moment, taking space like this to prioritize the love over the product seems progressive. Chastity Belt’s intentions have resulted in an album deeply expressive of four people’s commitment to what they love most: making music with each other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardly Art","offers":[{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50457129124171,"sku":"1069470","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50457120276811,"sku":"1069471","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50457126863179,"sku":"1069469","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/765dc488-a9b8-4b64-bb29-63b16f8006fb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727203290"},{"product_id":"i-used-to-spend-so-much-time-alone","title":"I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone","description":"\u003cp\u003eChastity Belt’s second full-length for Hardly Art. 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It’s a serious record but not a serious departure, defined best, perhaps, by a line that Shapiro shares early on its staggering title track: “I wanna be sincere.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl with Download featuring three bonus tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ Limited Coloured Vinyl with Download featuring three bonus tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardly Art","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50465609908555,"sku":"1008728","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50465609023819,"sku":"1008729","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50465608499531,"sku":"1008727","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50465608859979,"sku":"1008726","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/08663609-34f9-4323-9ca1-639c8abad3de_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727293556"},{"product_id":"that-guy-bw-time-crisis-too-2","title":"That Guy b\/w Time Crisis Too","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeattle's Chastity Belt and Austin's Holy Wave split a dreamy 7-inch for Suicide Squeeze Records. Chastity Belt's offering, 'That Guy,' rings with the band's signature laid-back-yet-precise style. Jangly, intricate guitarwork plays off easy rhythms; an upbeat tranquillity buoys wistful riffs. The lyrics are honest and introspective as Julia Shapiro admits to being \"that kind of guy\"—the type who just wants to feel alive, despite the pull of screentime, and the tendency to hold onto something until the life has been sucked out of it. \"Maybe quitting is okay, but I don't like giving things away,\" she sings, backed by warm vocal harmonies. \"I'd rather hold on for too long, until all the feeling's gone.\" For their side, Holy Wave contribute the lush and hypnotic slow burner 'Time Crisis Too.' Smears of warped synth over meticulous percussion and guitar form a dense tapestry of sound; melodic vibraphone perfects the cinematic nostalgia while the lyrics lament the too-hurried passage of time. Microdoses of experimentation tucked into the layers—seaside waves, swells of distortion, a disembodied second vocal—add intrigue and enhance the vibe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suicide Squeeze","offers":[{"title":"Yellow 7\"","offer_id":51049343320395,"sku":"2237877","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Chastity_Belt__Holy_Wave_-_That_Guy_7_3bd4e999_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1736177085"},{"product_id":"all-my-friends","title":"All My Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat makes a life well lived? Career, home, savings, family: these are the milestones that make adulthood legible as success. Friendship, meanwhile, is often treated as something that either endures or doesn’t, more a matter of luck than a relationship requiring its own devotion, maintenance, and care. When really, as the world becomes more isolated and artificial by the day, friendships may be the most important thing a person ever builds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A lot of times in life I feel like a late bloomer, like I'm still trying to get my shit together in a way that other people have already figured out,” says Chastity Belt drummer\/vocalist Gretchen Grimm. “But then I reflect on my adulthood, and my top priority has largely been my friends, which I do not regret at all.” That priority feels like the guiding principle on the band’s sixth album, All My Friends. Not that they set out to make an album about friendship—during mixing the band's longtime collaborator and engineer, Samur Khouja, pointed out that a lot of the songs referenced the subject. Which makes a lot of sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Shapiro (guitar\/vocals), Lydia Lund (guitar\/vocals), Hunter Truscott (bass\/vocals), and Grimm have been making music together for 15 years. 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