- Record Label: Hardly Art
- Release Date: Jun 2, 2017
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MagnetJun 27, 2017Goofy and awkward, yet mature and sincere, this album showcases a band making magic from the mudpies of millennial angst. [No. 143, p.55]
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May 31, 2017I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone is pretty in its sonic gloominess and witty in the way that it wears its anxieties on its sleeve, but what makes it special is the way that all of that is grounded by the sturdiest of anchors--the quiet optimism that friendship inspires.
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Jul 25, 2017There is joy here, beyond the pleasure of wallowing so elegantly and tunefully in ennui.
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Jul 21, 2017Between Stuck’s bright indie-jangle and the layered guitars of the reflective Something Else, the result offers testimony to the robust flexibility of Chastity Belt’s alt. indie foundations; they make the evolution seem natural, not stretched.
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Jun 2, 2017There’s something whimsical about the new record that’s hard to pinpoint. The disparity between the lyrics and the sounds is a little disorienting at first, but progresses into something remarkably natural, and invigorating.
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Jun 1, 2017I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone isn’t as callow as previous Chastity Belt records, and intentionally so, fully digging up the sadness that always lay ever-dormant beneath their tinny-swigging chaos, and leaving behind biting mockery for something that feels vaguer, and also more universal.
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May 31, 2017Though it can eventually make for numerous and intricate readings both technically and conceptually, it's the album's undeniable quality that emerges as solid and everlasting, embodying a timelessness very rarely found.
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MojoMay 30, 2017The foggy nights of soul chronicled here lend Chastity Belt's bruised indie pop a weight that suits it. [Jun 2017, p.89]
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May 31, 2017On the band’s new album, her lonely psychoses are exposed and have taken center stage for an unapologetically dire, wistful listen.
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Jun 2, 2017While the lyrics can be blunt, even casual in their demeanor, they’re paired with plenty of sonic turmoil.
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Jun 1, 2017Shapiro's wry humor and deadpan delivery carry the introspective lyrics without undercutting them, but LP3 for the Seattle band does take a darker tone than the previous two.
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Jun 6, 2017I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone curls into dark corners, exploring the depths of desperation and self-loathing that Chastity Belt only hinted at on their last two albums.
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Jun 15, 2017Growing up is working out well for Chastity Belt, and I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone is clever, satisfying proof.
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May 31, 2017I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone skilfully expresses complex and murky emotions with clear and concise lyrics.
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UncutMay 30, 2017Beneath the edgy smarts there's always been an undercurrent of anxiety, and now they're plunging into choppy emotional waters, minus irony's lifebelt. [Jul 2017, p.26]
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May 31, 2017Chastity Belt lose some of their past work’s more tunefully intricate contours in favor of a more streamlined approach that weakens their innate potency. Though Shapiro bares herself with affecting honesty, it appears as if the band hasn’t found a way to translate her more melancholy bearing without resorting to pleasant-sounding tedium.
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May 30, 2017I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone sees the Seattle group recede deeper into their comfort zone with a batch of tracks that are lukewarm at best.
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May 30, 2017This release marks a new sense of sincerity and authenticity for the band and the thematic issues which the lyrics raise are vocalised in a wonderfully relatable manner, free of any flounce or artifice. However, without humour the album feels a bit flat and even overly morose.