Chat Pile are back with a new album.Who Loves the Sun follows the Oklahoma noise-rockers’ 2024 LP Cool World and last year’s pleasantly unexpected Hayden Pedigo collab album In the Earth Again.
“Deep Blue” leads the LP, with a video documenting strange goings on in a macabre barbershop.(The clip includes flashing images and strobes.) Watch it below.“This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world,” singer, screamer, and songwriter Ray B.
said in a press release, surprising no one.“AI, genocide, climate change, the power elite, $$$$ hoarding pigs—all that shit fucks up your life and mine.
The band is definitely stretching out their abilities on the album and I too felt inspired to go further—as a huge fan of Boston, I like to think Brad Delp is somewhere up there, smiling down, as I take the layering to new heights, but who can say? We have fun with it.”Bassist Stin continued, “This album contains a healthy dose of the usual Chat Pile airing of grievances against the state of the world, but deeper at it's heart I feel Who Loves the Sun is grappling with the challenges of trying to keep one’s humanity in a time of extreme anti-humanity.” The single, Stin added, set the tone for the album.“I personally love this because it sounds like Chat Pile doing a Billy Squire song.
It’s our ‘Lonely Is the Night,’ which is actually a fake Led Zeppelin song so who knows what the hell we’re actually doing here?”Ray chimed in with a final reminder of the state of the world: “Technology is rapidly ruining our lives, all promise seemingly squandered on the worst things, like killing people, wasting resources, destroying art—shrinking our brains and pulling us further apart than ever before.” The band is presently touring Down Under and will head to North America later in the year.Scroll down for all those previously announced dates.Chat Pile: Who Loves the SunBuy Now at Rough TradeWho Loves the Sun:01 Creature02 Deep Blue03 Sa...