Chat Pile have debuted their new single “I Am Dog Now” from their upcoming new album Cool World, which is set to be released through The Flenser on October 11th. The video for the track can be found below.
Vocalist Raygun Busch offered:
“‘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. If I had to describe the album in one sentence, it’s hard not to borrow from Voltaire, so I won’t resist – ‘Cool World‘ is about the price at which we eat sugar in America.”
Stin, the band’s bassist added:
“While we wanted our follow-up to ‘God’s Country‘ to still capture the immediate, uncompromising essence of Chat Pile, we also knew that with ‘Cool World,’ we’d want to stretch the definition of our ‘sound’ to reflect our tastes beyond just noise rock territory. Now that we had some form of creative comfort zones in place after hitting that milestone of putting out a full-length record, album #2 felt like the perfect opportunity to challenge those limits.”
Ben Greenberg of the band Uniform offered the mix on the album, which Stin offered:
“Will‘s vision captures the essence of ‘I Am Dog Now‘ by channeling his specific style of low-fi, exploitation cinema aesthetic into a dusty, religious bad-trip exclusive to the southern plains of America. Eagle eyed viewers may actually notice shots of the literal chat piles from which we take our name.”
Cool World track listing:
01 – “I Am Dog Now”
02 – “Shame”
03 – “Frownland”
04 – “Funny Man”
05 – “Camcorder”
06 – “Tape”
07 – “The New World”
08 – “Masc”
09 – “Milk Of Human Kindness”
10 – “No Way Out”
With Agriculture & Porcelain:
11/01 Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street
11/02 Columbia, MO – The Blue Note
11/03 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
11/05 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
11/06 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
11/08 Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s
11/09 Detroit, MI – The Majestic Theatre
11/11 Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall
11/12 Montreal, QC – Théâtre Fairmount
With Mamaleek & Traindodge:
11/14 Burlington, VT – Showcase Lounge @ Higher Ground
11/15 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
11/16 New York, NY – (Le) Poisson Rouge
11/17 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
With Mamaleek & Thirdface:
11/19 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
11/20 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry
11/21 Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819
11/22 Nashville, TN – The End
