Seattle’s Chastity Belt and Austin’s Holy Wave will release a dreamy split 7″ out February 7, 2025. This time capsule is limited to 1,000 copies; the pressing will include 400 yellow vinyl, 300 red vinyl, and 300 green vinyl. In October, Chastity Belt shared the single “That Guy,” which perfectly encapsulates the band’s jangly, albeit spunky style.

Today, [February 4, 2025] Holy Wave share their offering from the 7″. “Time Crisis Too” is sun soaked and beachy, offering a hit of warm psychedelia in the dead of winter. Warped synth, meticulous percussion, and bright guitar form a dense tapestry of sound; melodic vibraphone enhances the cinematic nostalgia, while the lyrics lament the too-hurried passage of time. “Time Crisis Too” was workshopped over the course of a tour, and retains an appropriately well worn sense of spontaneity.

On the track, Holy Wave’s Ryan Fuson shares: “We immediately started working on new music after the Interloper session. It felt effortless after the album, so we wrote as much as possible. “Time Crisis Too” was one of the first ones to come out; it happened organically before we had any direction. We continued working like this until March 2020, when we started a short East Coast/Midwest tour. “Time Crisis Too” was added to that tour’s setlist, and it was going great. Sometimes, you can’t totally understand a song until you play it night after night. So that’s what we did—we played it every night until Chicago, where it ended with the pandemic. It’s hard to believe the song got shelved because I love it so much, but after that Chicago show, it did get shelved. It wasn’t until we recorded some songs in 2022 that we played it again. We still haven’t played it live since then, but maybe by the time you read this, that will have changed.”