I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone is the third studio album by American indie rock band, Chastity Belt. It was released on June 2, 2017, by Hardly Art. The band's first work after their second studio album Time to Go Home (2015), I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone was produced by Matthew Simms. It was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, many critics remarked its more serious content than their previous releases, while some felt the band's material has grown up with the album.

Two singles preceded the album's release: the lead single "Different Now" on March 8, 2017 and the second single "Caught in a Lie" on April 4, 2017. To promote the album, the band released "5am" as a promotional single before the album release, and music videos for the lead single "Different Now", and for the non-single tracks "Used to Spend" and "Stuck". Chastity Belt embarked on a North American and European tour in support of the album. The tour started on June 1, 2017, in Seattle, Washington, and ended on October 18, 2017, in the same city tour started.

During the band's recording session of new material after the release of their second studio album Time to Go Home, they told AAA Backstage that they have "learned so much" since Time to Go Home, saying: "Looking back on recording 'Time To Go Home', I really feel like we had no idea what we were doing. We've grown so much over the past couple years, as people and musicians." In an interview with Spin, Chastity Belt's vocalist, Julia Shapiro said: "That's something we realized, that we don't have to play joke songs in order to have fun. We can play serious songs and still have fun with it."

With the producer Matthew Simms, the band spent 8 days in Jackpot! Studios, Portland, Oregon, and recorded 14 songs for their album. Shapiro stated that their playing has become "tighter" and "more confident" during the making of the album, with their songwriting becoming more "assured" and "collaborative". She also revealed that I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone included Time to Go Home's many sound and theme characteristics, also a "clearer, fuller production and more guitar overdubs."

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