Chat Pile + The HIRS Collective
Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile will headline Glasgow's QMU on Wednesday 23rd April!
About Chat Pile + The HIRS Collective
Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile have returned with their follow up to 2022’s breakout album *God’s Country* with *Cool World*, the new 10-song LP out now!
Besides being the name of a largely forgotten (and panned) 90s film, *Cool World* makes for an apt title of Chat Pile’s sophomore full-length record.
In the context of a Chat Pile record, the words are steeped in a grim double entendre that not only evokes imagery of a dying planet but a progression from the band’s previous work, moving the scope of its depiction of modern malaise from just “God’s Country” to the entirety of humankind. “’*Cool World*’ covers similar themes to our last album, except now exploded from a micro to macro scale, with thoughts specifically about disasters abroad, at home, and how they affect one another,” says vocalist Raygun Busch. “If I had to describe the album in one sentence,” Busch continues, “It’s hard not to borrow from Voltaire, so I won’t resist – ‘Cool World’ is about the price at which we eat sugar in America.”Like the towering mounds of toxic waste, the music of Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has stuck as strong of a chord as it has. Dread has replaced the American dream, and Chat Pile’s music is a poignant reminder of that shift – a portrait of an American rock band molded by a society defined by its cold and cruel power systems.
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