Home Made Satan

Brandon Williams' second full-length record as Chastity, Home Made Satan, is a new direction for the Whitby, Ontario-native. It's an emotional and political concept album, the second installment of his I Love trilogy, from the perspective of a young man who's spent too much time alone, inside, isolated from the world. It's about fear, and radicalization; an intense meditation on youth and extremism in an increasingly irrational and violent Western World. Williams, who produces all his own music, set out to create something with a strong cinematic nature, a record that sounds somewhere between My Chemical Romance and The Smiths (even as he cites Morrissey's alignment with the UK's far-right as the complete opposite of his mission). Recorded in a small studio in London, Ontario, with his full band in the few weeks between a European tour with Fucked Up and a seven-week North American tour, Williams crafted Home Made Satan like he was producing a film - his bandmates were the cast members, his engineer the cinematographer, and Williams the writer and composer. 'It's so visual to me,' he says. 'I'm scoring this picture I have, and trying to get it as close to people's ears as it is in my mind.'The new songs are gothier and poppier than ever, recalling '80s goth staples like The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Home Made Satan's got 'a bit more' than 2018's genre-bending shoegaze-meets-post-hardcore Death Lust, and it's got pop-punk hooks for days. Wiliams has toned down the re

Tracks

1~1~Flames
1~2~Dead Relatives
1~3~Spirit Meet Up
1~4~Sun Poisoning
1~5~Anxiety
1~6~Last Year 's Lust
1~7~Bliss
1~8~The Girls I Know Don't Think So
1~9~Still Feel The Same
1~10~Strife

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Chastity
Release Date: 13 September 2019
Genre: Alternative
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Distributor: Rocket Group