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Brandon Williams second full-length record as Chastity, Home Made Satan , is a new direction for the Whitby, Ontario-native. Its an emotional and political concept album from the perspective of a young man whos spent too much time alone, inside, isolated from the world. Its 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. Its so visual to me, he says. Im scoring this picture I have, and trying to get it as close to peoples ears as it is in my mind.
The new songs are gothier and poppier than ever, recalling 80s staples like The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Home Made Satans got a bit more eyeshadow than 2018s genre-bending shoegaze-meets-post-hardcore Death Lust , and its got pop-punk hooks for days. Home Made Satan , with its lines about commies and American masochism and the Christian right, is meant to sing along to.
And when you do, youll mostly be singing about America. About hyper alienation and xenophobia, about the people who dont have access to community, how people get stuck in their own worlds and become afraid of whats outside.
It constantly feels like America is falling apart, Williams says, and that affects the whole world.
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