Cool World (Vinyl) - By: Chat Pile - Model Number: FR164LP

Description

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.

Though very much on-brand with Chat Pile™s signature flavour 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.

Besides stylistically stretching the boundaries of the Chat Pile sound, Cool World is also the band™s first record to have someone else handle mixing duties, with Ben Greenberg of Uniform (Algiers, Drab Majesty, Metz) capturing and further amplifying the quartet™s unmistakably outsider and folk-art edge.

Label
Flenser

Tracks & Genre

RHYTHM