Chat Pile Cool World

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• The music of Oklahoma City noise-rock quartet Chat Pile, like the giant piles of toxic waste from which it takes its name, is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential angst that defines the 21st century. It’s understandable that a band with such a raw, unrelenting and offbeat sound has found so much resonance. The American dream has been replaced by horror, and Chat Pile’s music is a poignant reminder of this shift – a portrait of an American rock band shaped by a society defined by its cold and cruel systems of power.

  Cool World is not only the name of a largely forgotten (and frowned upon) 90s movie, but also an apt title for Chat Pile’s second full-length album. In the context of a Chat Pile album, the words are imbued with a dark ambiguity that not only conjures up im