Chastity, the project of Whitby, Ontario musician Brandon Williams, has announced a new album, I Built This Prison Myself, due November 13 via Dine Alone Records, previewed today by the lead single "Misled Youth."
Chastity's music has always resisted a clean genre tag. Stereogum's Tom Breihan described it as somewhere between heavy emo, heart-on-sleeve shoegaze and fuzzed-out, anguished power-pop, writing that it "sounds like Jesu and the Promise Ring at the same time."
Press materials describe the new record as Williams's "most narrative work yet," drawing on melodic hardcore, shoegaze and punk influences. It's built around a true story: a fire set in 1976 by a 16-year-old patient at Whitby Psychiatric Hospital that burned down a barn on the hospital grounds. Rather than treating the boy as a symbol of destruction, Williams imagines him as a young person confronting fear, powerlessness, control and the hope of remaining himself.
I Built This Prison Myself runs ten tracks, opening with "Blink and See God" and "Don't Lose the Feeling," moving through "Jesus Christ Superstore" and the title-adjacent "Misled Youth," and closing on "Making Peace with the Horrors of Being Me."
The album adds Chastity to a run of new rock releases building toward the fall, tracked alongside other upcoming records on the release calendar.
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- New album I Built This Prison Myself arrives November 13 via Dine Alone Records
- Lead single 'Misled Youth' released with the announcement
- Concept draws on a 1976 fire set by a teen patient at Whitby Psychiatric Hospital
- Ten-track record described by press materials as Williams's 'most narrative work yet'
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Confirms the November 13 release date via Dine Alone Records, the album's tracklist and its narrative concept about the 1976 Whitby Psychiatric Hospital fire.
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