Chat Pile have introduced their new album, Cool World, out October eleventh through The Flenser. The Oklahoma Metropolis noise rock band additionally unveiled Fall 2024 North American tour dates and the video for lead single and album opener “I Am Canine Now.”
The outing kicks off with a hometown gig in OKC on November 1st and runs by means of November twenty second in Nashville. A rotating solid of help acts together with Agriculture, Porcelain, Mamaleek, Traindodge, and thirdface will open choose dates.
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A Dwell Nation ticket pre-sale for choose dates begins Thursday (July 18th) at 10 a.m. native time utilizing the code STRUM. Common ticket gross sales begin Friday (July nineteenth) at 10 a.m. native time through Ticketmaster.
Cool World — named after the largely forgotten 1992 Ralph Bakshi movie of the identical title — marks Chat Pile’s second correct full-length album and the follow-up to their acclaimed 2022 debut LP God’s Nation.
Our first style of the brand new file comes within the type of opening monitor “I Am Canine Now,” a relentless sludgy pounder with vicious vocals from Raygun Busch. Will Mecca directed the accompanying video, a parody of Southern televangelism that aligns with the stark non secular imagery of the Cool World album artwork.
“Will’s imaginative and prescient captures the essence of ‘I Am Canine Now’ by channeling his particular type of low-fi, exploitation cinema aesthetic right into a dusty, non secular bad-trip unique to the southern plains of America,” commented Chat Pile bassist Stin through a press launch. “Eagle eyed viewers may very well discover pictures of the literal chat piles from which we take our title.”
Concerning the album itself, vocalist Busch said that it “covers comparable themes to our final album, besides now exploded from a micro to macro scale, with ideas particularly about disasters overseas, at house, and the way they have an effect on each other.”
He continued, “If I needed to describe the album in a single sentence… It’s exhausting to not borrow from Voltaire, so I received’t resist – Cool World is concerning the value at which we eat sugar in America.”
Stin added that the band needed to “stretch the definition of our ‘sound’ to mirror our tastes past simply noise rock territory” on the brand new album. It’s additionally the primary Chat Pile file to function exterior mixing work, with Ben Greenberg of Uniform (Algiers, Drab Majesty, Metz) dealing with that course of this time round.
You may pre-order Cool World through The Flenser. Stream the video for “I Am Canine Now” and see the album artwork, tracklist, and full listing of tour dates under.
Cool World Paintings:
Cool World Tracklist:
01. I Am Canine Now
02. Disgrace
03. Frownland
04. Humorous Man
05. Camcorder
06. Tape
07. The New World
08. Masc
09. Milk of Human Kindness
10. No Manner Out
Chat Pile’s 2024 Tour Dates:
09/07 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
11/01 – Oklahoma Metropolis, OK @ 89th Road %
11/02 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Notice %
11/03 – Omaha, NE @ The Ready Room %
11/05 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Corridor %
11/06 – Minneapolis, MN @ Nice Line %
11/08 – Lakewood, OH @ Mahall’s %
11/09 – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre %
11/11 – Toronto, ON @ The Live performance Corridor %
11/12 – Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Fairmount %
11/14 – Burlington, VT @ Showcase Lounge @ Larger Floor ^
11/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church ^
11/16 – New York, NY @ (Le) Poisson Rouge ^
11/17 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair ^
11/19 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery *
11/20 – Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry *
11/21 – Greensboro, NC @ Hangar 1819 *
11/22 – Nashville, TN @ The Finish *
% = w/ Agriculture, Porcelain
^ = w/ Mamaleek, Traindodge
* = w/ Mamaleek, thirdface
