Chat Pile have announced a new album, Who Loves the Sun, which is slated for release on September 4 through the Flenser. It’s led by the churning single ‘Deep Blue’, which comes with a video directed by Stephen Mondics. Check it out below, and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork and tracklist. (I also urge you to take another look at that press photo above, surely the cutest picture of a noise-rock group you’ll see this year. Look at those half smiles! The dog!)
“This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world,” vocalist Ray B said in a statement. “AI, genocide, climate change, the power elite, $$$$ hoarding pigs – all that shit fucks up your life and mine. The band is definitely stretching out their abilities on the album and I too felt inspired to go further- as a huge fan of Boston, I like to think Brad Delp is somewhere up there, smiling down, as I take the layering to new heights, but who can say? We have fun with it.”
Bassist Stin added: “This album contains a healthy dose of the usual Chat Pile airing of grievances against the state of the world, but deeper at it’s heart I feel Who Loves the Sun is grappling with the challenges of trying to keep one’s humanity in a time of extreme anti-humanity.”
About ‘Deep Blue’, Stin had this to say: “This is the first track we wrote for the album and the one that helped set the tone for the whole thing. I personally love this because it sounds like Chat Pile doing a Billy Squire song. It’s our ‘Lonely is the Night’, which is actually a fake Led Zeppelin song so who knows what the hell we’re actually doing here?”
Raygun continued, “Technology is rapidly ruining our lives, all promise seemingly squandered on the worst things, like killing people, wasting resources, destroying art- shrinking our brains and pulling us further apart than ever before.”
Last year, the Oklahoma outfit collaborated with Hayden Pedigo for the joint LP In the Earth Again. Their previous album was 2024’s Cool World.
Who Loves the Sun Cover Artwork:
Who Loves the Sun Tracklist:
1. Creature
2. Deep Blue
3. Same Rules
4. PEN I S MALL
5. Shrine
6. Intruder
7. Christabel ’26
8. Influence
9. Family Funeral
10. October All the Time
