Chastity Belt - No Regerts (10th Anniversary Edition) Black & White SwirlOn December 29, 2012, three songs into Chastity Belt's first KEXP in studio, something extraordinary happened: they shared "Black Sail" with the world. That year, I'd seen Chastity Belt play countless basement, bar, and DIY shows all over Seattle, but nothing could've prepared me for how my friends turned patience and quiet observation into something so affecting and effortlessly cool. Ten years later, "Black Sail" isn't just a fan favorite it's

the 10-track album delves not only into Staples' upbringing in Long Beach but his psyche as he learns to cope with his yesterdays and strides toward new tomorrows

Ken Peplowski shows his diversity on this blending of two sessions

There are gospel ballads

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all-girl gang rules over the females of a high school

piling tape upon tape to maximum density

soft and freely flowing

in Neil Jordan's acclaimed British underworld drama

Liszt's favourite pupil

and the inevitable confrontation between their armies

of north and south: the lonely carrier of a local universal knowledge who