As they raise their political voice(s) regularly, they couldn’t ignore the bullshit
happening in Trump‘s Divided States Of Hate,where masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shoot American civilians in cold blood.
CHAT PILE the clamorous and out-of-their-minds sludge/metal creeps from Oklahoma
and Texas-born avant-garde musician, politician and performance artist HAYDEN PEDIGO have teamed up for a most surprising album. Talking about a bizarre collaboration.
Stereogum (and other mainstream music websites) had the opportunity
to listen to the record for a week now and they have this to say:
“In The Earth Again is a staggering achievement that makes sense within each artist’s discography, even as it stands out as an adventurous outlier for both acts. It’s a flavor combination on par with salted caramel or dipping fries in your Frosty, though the
outcome here is often more bitter than sweet.
I just heard the album 2 hours ago and I say: WTF. Don’t get fooled by the fact that Mike Meyers is pictured on the LP’s cover and that the record is released today, on Halloween. This is everything you wouldn’t have expected. It’s ACE!
Oklahoma City‘ spiky punks CHAT PILE will follow their boiling 2022 debut album God’s Country with 2nd full length COOL WORLD, which will be unleashed on
October 11. More info here.
Artwork new album
Ahead of it they gave their fanatic fans already two
spicy appetizers with Masc and I Am Dog Now.
And here’s vicious hammer blow
number 3, named FUNNY MAN
Raygun Busch (frontman): “It’s about being a servant, indentured or otherwise.
I hate having to explain the content of these songs because I want it to mean whatever
it needs to mean to those listening, but essentially it concerns illusion vs. reality in regards
to America and war. The title comes from an obscure British movie, but otherwise there’s
no relation.”
Wake up people,
a funny pile of
shit is coming
your way.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of coffee
23 August 2024
Band: CHAT PILE Who: Hefty noisemakers from Oklahoma who entered the scene with a big
bang when they released their debut LP God’s Country two years ago.
Single: MASC
Second new cut from their forthcoming
2nd full-length Cool World, out October 11th.
Album artwork
Raygun Busch (vocalist): “Unlike the rest of the album, this song deals with
horrors of interpersonal intimacy, yet it is connected with the rest of the record
through the overarching theme of oppression, despair and malaise.”
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
FULL JUKEBOX (so far)
.
The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
Band: THE LINDA LINDAS Who: Female punk-pop teen sensation, Half Asian/Half Latinx, based in Los Angeles.
This sounds like a lost track from one of the early albums of their NYC neighbors The Strokes. Rad riffage, Julian Casablancas alter ego on vocals, and a mind-bending chorus.
Band: THE SARANDONS Who: Canadian outfit. Their music is a blend of bittersweet nostalgia and
familiar yet elusive stories. Despite a loose and lo-fi aesthetic, their songs
are meticulously arranged, with action-packed tracks typically spanning
3-4 minutes.
David Suchon (songwriter): “Dream Machine is about connecting with things that are lost. In the case of my Dad, he’d always be able-bodied in his dreams despite have been paralyzed in a diving accident in 1982. Dreams are a strange world connecting us with a different reality, that is, until the dreamer is lost.”
This is the kind of boosting tunes I embrace on my headphones all day long.
Jaunty, summer-sunlit, and irresistibly melodic fueled by a steadfast beat, shiny
guitars and harmonious vocals.
First piece from their upcoming new album, titled The Last Flight.
A concept one about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and her famous
round-the-world journey in 1937 that ended in her disappearance.
I wonder if Earhart would have liked the music of PSB. Anyway, Elektra
is an intoxicating, ongoing, symphonic sound-jam taking you sky-high.
Artist: ICARUS PHOENIX Who: Musical project of singer-songwriter Drew Danburry
from Baltimore, Maryland. He has independently toured and
released records – 400 songs/20+ albums and 13 EPs (!!) – since
2002.
“It’s about ignorance and understanding. Understanding that your parents came from struggle, grief and tragedy. I grew up surrounded by paintings that my mother had made while attending an art therapy class after her third son died of cancer. She never painted again after the class was over. I grew up never knowing she had made them or why because I never saw her paint in my entire life.”
High Tide is a vocally/musically endearing and melancholic reflection about Danburry‘s parents’s grief after losing a son (and a brother to this songsmith). I guess words can’t express such a drama, but I hope the healing power of music/this song has a cathartic effect for the loved ones involved here and for all people who had to experience a
similar tragedy
It is a sweet little tune with a breezy, smooth vibe and warm horns.
It’s her first solo song since 2014. It was recorded by the late Steve
Albini who passed away in May, only 61.
Frontman Callum lays himself bare across the four-and-a-half-minute run time.
The honesty and vulnerability expressed is both frightening and cathartic while
allowing the listener to connect instantly to the track. All draped over a laid-back melancholy indie rock track with flourishes of Frusciante that underpin the still
stinging wound.
High-quality singer-songwriter debut. One for the midnight hours.
Emotive vocals, captivating melody, fitting musical orchestration.
Two years ago, Oklahoma City‘s rowdy pandemonium rockersCHAT PILE
released a hot-boiling split 7″ with Texan scream teamPortrail Of Guilt.
Last year they unleashed their bloody blasting debut LPGod’s Country.
And now they return to what they did before. Splitting stuff with another band.
This time it’s muscled Kansas City’s gangNERVER who are the lucky ones. Both
groups have each 2 jackhammering songs on an EP titled BROTHERS IN CRIST.
Play it to the max. Test your stereo’s resilience.
But warn your neighborhood first that a titanic
storm is coming in order to avoid a visit by
the decibels police.
“There’s a sick irony to how a country that extols rhetoric of individual freedom, in the same gasp, has no problem commodifying human life as if it were meat to feed the insatiable hunger of capitalism. If this is American nihilism taken to its absolute zenith, then God’s Country, the first full length record from Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is the aural embodiment of such a concept.”
Stereogum says: “God’s Country, Chat Pile’s new album, is powered by some of the same electric sludge that you could hear in ’90s noise-rock gods like the Jesus Lizard or Chokebore. But where those bands could be acerbic, Chat Pile are sincere. For them, juddering skree is the only way to make sense of a landscape as brutal and anti-human as what currently confronts us.”
TUTV says: This volcanic beast of a record predicts Doomsday as we know it with destructive cannonballs accompanied by horrific primal screams (actually, last screams)
to soundtrack the end-of-times exorcism at work here. The flabbergasting closing track grimace_smoking-weed tells you all about the album’s agony. It’s about going-totally-out-of-your-fucking-mind and not knowing if living or not living is the answer. God’s country? Are you kidding me? It’s Satan’s country now. Contender for album of the year! FACT! Let’s rock!
“There’s a sick irony to how a country that extols rhetoric of individual freedom, in the same gasp, has no problem commodifying human life as if it were meat to feed the insatiable hunger of capitalism. If this is American nihilism taken to its absolute zenith, then God’s Country, the first full length record from Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is the aural embodiment of such a concept.”
To get us in the right what-the-fuck-is-wrong with the Divided States of America mood, this thunderous Oklahoma hit team unleashed the third track from their nearby debut LP. Following Slaughterhouse and Why the new cut is titled Wicked Puppet Dance.
It’s a Molotov cocktail that can kill fascists and all
related money/power sharks that fuck up society.
The accompanying video clip looks pretty creepy
(just like the world doe, actually).
Band: CHAT PILE Who: Caring noise turbo maniacs from Oklamohoma. Having lived alongside
the heaps of toxic refuse that the band derives its name from, the fatalism of
daily life in the American Midwest permeates throughout the works of Chat Pile.
“There’s a sick irony to how a country that extols rhetoric of individual freedom, in the same gasp, has no problem commodifying human life as if it were meat to feed the insatiable hunger of capitalism. If this is American nihilism taken to its absolute zenith, then God’s Country, the first full length record from Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is the aural embodiment of such a concept.”
And the eyes of god
Always watching
Always watching
If we could only fly away now
If we could only fly away
And live in different skins
Exist in different skins
And live in different skins
Remove all your skins
And walk in new light
And walk in cleaner light
And walk in new skin
In new light
And the eyes of God are forgiving now
So forgiving now
Blood had to be shed
In order to set things right
Hammers and grease
Haunted building
Haunted life
And all the blood
All the blood
And the fuckin sound, man
You never forget their eyes
Everyone’s head rings here
And there is no escape
No motherfucking exit
Hammers and grease
Pouding
And the sad eyes, goddamnit
And the screaming
There’s more screaming than you’d think
Everyone’s head rings here
You never forget their eyes
Hammers and grease
