Chastity Belt formed in 2010 in Walla Walla, Washington, while all four of them, Julia Shapiro, Lydia Lund, Hunter Truscott and Gretchen Grimm, were students at Whitman College. They've been a Seattle band ever since, same lineup the whole way. "Drone" opens their second album, Time to Go Home (Hardly Art, 2015): chiming, reverb-washed guitars and wry lyrics that turn a humorous eye on feminine stereotypes. It scored 78 on Metacritic. Later albums include I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (2017), the self-titled Chastity Belt (2019) and Live Laugh Love (2024), which Stereogum named Album of the Week. They released the singles "I Could Say Less" and "Pavement" on 10 September 2026.
From the notes for Episode 11 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
