Chat Pile
Cool World
Release Date: Oct 11, 2024
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Metal, Noise-Rock, Sludge Metal
Record label: The Flenser
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Album Review: Cool World by Chat Pile
Phenomenal, Based on 3 Critics
Based on rating 5.0/5
Just remember: everyone bleeds From the time you were born it was over The world is bleak. Look around you. Nothing is right; and there's no end to it all. Forget everything you know about hope, Cool World is reality. On their second full-length, Chat Pile goes beyond just "God's Country ….
Based on rating 9/10
This time around they're including surprisingly catchy melodies, bombastic riffs, and galvanic rhythms, with singer Raygun Busch embodying the connection between aggression and despair. The result is a riveting sequence, the Oklahoma-based band lauding the power of creative expression while raging against existential, social, and cosmic brutalities. If God's Country was a focused attack on power systems, seen and unseen, Cool World is a broader take on history, intergenerational conditioning, and our current state.
Opinion: Very Good
With their second studio album, Cool World, Chat Pile continue to channel despair and dejection through grimy guitar riffs and brutally honest lyrics, recounting the subjugation of the lower classes by the well-fixed. Throughout, the Oklahoma City fourpiece warns of a population that allows itself to be exploited. On opener "I Am Dog Now," singer Raygun Busch reminds us that "everyone bleeds," a sentiment that's echoed later on "Masc," on which he begs, "Don't tell your friends I trust and bleed." Musically and lyrically, Chat Pile aggressively argues for a fairer distribution of power, to tear down the systems that perpetuate cycles of victimization.
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