Chastity Belt – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone Vinyl Record

Description

I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone is Chastity Belt’s third and finest full-length album to date. Recorded live in July of 2016, at Jackpot! in Portland, OR with producer/mixer Matthew Simms of Wire, it’s a dark and uncommonly beautiful set of mood-driven rock that’s also unabashedly introspective. More personal and more direct than 2015’s marvelous Time to Go Home, I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone is a brave and often exhilarating tangle of mixed feelings and haunting melodies that connects dizzying anguish (“This Time of Night”) to shimmering insight (“Different Now”) to gauzy ambiguity (“Stuck”). It’s a serious record but not a serious departure, defined best, perhaps, by a line that Julia Shapiro shares early on its staggering title track: “I wanna be sincere.”

1. Different Now
2. Caught in a Lie
3. This Time of Night
4. Stuck
5. Complain
6. It’s Obvious
7. What the Hell
8. Something Else
9. Used to Spend
10. 5am