Here’s an unlikely but exciting collaboration: noise rock outfit Chat Pile have teamed up with fingerpicking guitarist and composer Hayden Pedigo for a joint LP called In the Earth Again. It’s set for release on October 31 via Computer Students. Check out the lead single ‘Radioactive Dreams’ below, and scroll down for the album artwork (by Malcolm Byers) and tracklist.
While they trade in very different styles of music, Chat Pile and Pedigo have crossed paths in the Oklahoma City DIY scene. “We all wanted to avoid the downfall you see in a lot of collab records,” Pedigo remarked. “We didn’t want this record to either end up primarily sounding like one of us more than the other.” In that regard, it reminds me of May Our Chambers Be Full, Emma Ruth Rundle’s collaboration with the doom metal band Thou. On ‘Radioactive Dreams’, spectral ambience and apocalyptic heaviness coalesce in quite an astonishing way.
Stin from Chat Pile added, “For the album, every decision made was in support of each other’s ideas and making sure that everything we did was in service of a greater vision.”
Chat Pile’s most recent album was 2024’s Cool World. Earlier this year, Pedigo put out I’ll Be Waving as You Drive Away.
In the Earth Again Cover Artwork:
In the Earth Again Tracklist:
1. Outside
2. Demon Time
3. Never Say Die!
4. Behold a Pale Horse
5. The Magic of the World
6. Fission/Fusion
7. The Matador
8. I Got My Own Blunt to Smoke
9. Radioactive Dreams
10. Inside
11. A Tear for Lucas
