Chat Pile – Cool World – Limited Neon Green Vinyl, LP, 2nd Pressing, Flenser, 2024
Limited to 1500 copies.
Oklahoma City noise rockers Chat Pile return with Cool World, a suffocating exploration of 21st-century existential dread. Like the toxic waste piles they’re named for, their music is grotesque, abrasive, and unrelenting, capturing the shift from the American Dream to cold power systems and societal violence.
Expanding their sludgy noise rock roots, Cool World incorporates gothic dirges, anthemic alt hooks, and off-kilter metal grooves. The album’s global focus and experimental edge are complemented by Ben Greenberg’s mixing, amplifying their outsider, folk-art aesthetic.
Where their debut channeled B-movie horror, Cool World shifts to arthouse-meets-grindhouse terror, reflecting real-world atrocities with brutal, visceral force. A thrilling yet unsettling portrait of modern existence.
