Cool World
Chat Pile
October 11, 2024News updates for 'Cool World' by Chat Pile
Chat Pile release latest groove and riff heavy single "Funny Man" from forthcoming LP
As they prepare for the release of their highly-anticipated sophomore LP Cool World, Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile have revealed the album's third single "Funny Man." The song is about "...being a servant, indentured or otherwise. I hate having to explain the content of these songs, because I want it to mean whatever it needs to mean to those listening, but essentially it concerns illusion vs reality in regards to America and war. The title comes from an obscure British movie but otherwise there’s no relation," says Chat Pile frontman Raygun Busch. Bassist Stin adds, "My favorite thing about 'Funny Man' is that we've finally accomplished creating our version of the ultimate Beavis and Butthead couch music. This is like our 'Thunderkiss '65' or 'Existence is Punishment.'"
The new single arrives with a music video by multi-disciplinary artist Matt Rosenbaum. Stin comments, "The patient, static nature of the video fighting against the frenetic energy of the song makes for a cool and queasy juxtaposition that I personally love. Matt was able to tap into a very specific uncomfortable feeling that conjures those depressive semi-conscious dream states that we've all experienced but can't quite articulate."
The latest single is the third from their forthcoming sophomore LP "Cool World" due out October 11, 2024 and follows previously released singles "I Am Dog Now" and "Masc". Check out the crushingly noisy riff and heavy groove on new single "Funny Man" below.
Chat Pile drop massive and pummeling new single "Masc" with accompanying new video
Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile have released the album's second single "Masc" from their forthcoming LP "Cool World" due October 11, 2024, with an epic, narrative music video by Stephen Mondics (director) and Mario DeLeon (producer). Bassist Stin comments, "This is our first time collaborating with Stephen Mondics and the band is completely blown away with how well he was able to capture the spirit of the song. As huge movie buffs, it's also a legitimate dream-come-true to have a music video shot completely on film under our belts." Busch adds, "'Masc' is the saddest Chat Pile song since 'Tenkiller.' Unlike the rest of the album, this song deals with horrors of interpersonal intimacy, yet it is connected with the rest of the record through the overarching theme of oppression, despair and malaise."
The new single showcases their trademark distortion filled, groove-laden noise rock sound, while incorporating new elements of shoegaze and atmospheric elements, coupled with melodic moments and big hooks to go along with it. Plain and simple, this shit rocks and sounds like a band staying true to their sound while experimenting and progressing into new territory as well. "Masc" also follows their last single "I Am Dog Now" which are both an exciting preview of the forthcoming LP, that fans of Jesus Lizard, Helmet, Rollins Band, Unsane and the like should all enjoy. Stream both singles and their accompanying videos below.
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 set for release on October 11th via The Flenser.
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. Though very much on-brand with Chat Pile’s signature flavor of cacophonous, sludgy noise rock, the band’s shift to a global thematic focus on Cool World not only compliments the broader experimentations it employs with their songwriting but also how they dissect the album’s core theme of violence. Melded into the band’s twisted foundational sound are traces of other eclectic genre stylings, with examples of gazy, goth-tinged dirges to abrasive yet anthemic alt/indie-esque hooks and off-kilter metal grooves only scratching the surface of what can be heard in the album’s ten tracks.
Today, album opener "I Am Dog Now" arrives with a music video directed by Will Mecca which can be streamed below. Stin (bass, Chat Pile) says, "Will's vision captures the essence of 'I Am Dog Now' by channeling his specific style of low-fi, exploitation cinema aesthetic into a dusty, religious bad-trip exclusive to the southern plains of America. Eagle eyed viewers may actually notice shots of the literal chat piles from which we take our name."
RIYL: The Jesus Lizard, Big Black, Drives Like Jehu, Shellac
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