Chastity | Home Made Satan | CD

Brandon Williams\u2019 second full-length record as Chastity, Home Made Satan, is a new direction for the Whitby, Ontario-native. It\u2019s an emotional and political concept album from the perspective of a young man who\u2019s spent too much time alone, inside, isolated from the world. It\u2019s 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. The new songs are gothier and poppier than ever, recalling \u201880s staples like The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Home Made Satan\u2019s got \u201Ca bit more eyeshadow\u201D than 2018\u2019s genre-bending shoegaze-meets-post-hardcore Death Lust, and it\u2019s 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, you\u2019ll mostly be singing.