It’s time to chat about CHAT PILE’s new Cool World album. Their music reminds me of stepping into an awesome art show at the Deitch Gallery around 2007, or if the band Gang Gang Dance became an Art Noise Rock project. I say all this to say that this band is a master of not giving a fuck and of creating music in their weirdo likeness. CHAT PILE looks in the mirror their confident tweaked version of themselves stares back at them. As I listen to their song “Funny Man,” I think about being 14 and watching Black Flag’s “Modern Man” live for the first time realizing that this band sounds like no other. CHAT PILE knows how to weave Noise Rock into a sonic tapestry where Post Punk, Hardcore, Grunge, and even Shoegaze have the right to exist! “Camcorder” is a tune that creeps up on your brainwaves only to kick out any of your thoughts that your mushroom usage has not influenced. Amerikkka was founded on genocide, but as I listen to Cool World, I know that I’m free to be me. CHAT PILE are free to be themselves and for that fact, I fucking love this album. Respect due to The Flenser for releasing this album and keeping the underground awesome!
