"This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world”: Chat Pile announce new album Who Loves The Sun and share single Deep Blue

Chat Pile are coming back with the new album Who Loves The Sun and they’ve also shared a preview in the form of bleak lead single Deep Blue.

Who Loves the Sun will arrive on September 4 via The Flenser and serves as the follow-up to 2024’s Cool World. As vocalist Raygun explains, it’ll see them dive into some pretty topical themes…

"This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world," he says. "AI, genocide, climate change, the power elite, $$$$ hoarding pigs - all that shit fucks up your life and mine. The band is definitely stretching out their abilities on the album and I too felt inspired to go further- as a huge fan of Boston, I like to think Brad Delp is somewhere up there, smiling down, as I take the layering to new heights, but who can say? We have fun with it."

Bassist Stin adds: "This album contains a healthy dose of the usual Chat Pile airing of grievances against the state of the world, but deeper at it's heart I feel Who Loves the Sun is grappling with the challenges of trying to keep one's humanity in a time of extreme anti-humanity."

Turning to Deep Blue, he says: "This is the first track we wrote for the album and the one that helped set the tone for the whole thing. I personally love this because it sounds like Chat Pile doing a Billy Squire song. It's our Lonely is the Night, which is actually a fake Led Zeppelin song so who knows what the hell we're actually doing here?"

"Technology is rapidly ruining our lives, all promise seemingly squandered on the worst things, like killing people, wasting resources, destroying art- shrinking our brains and pulling us further apart than ever before,” adds Raygun.

Listen below:

Track listing:

1. Creature

2. Deep Blue

3. Same Rules

4. PEN I S MALL

5. Shrine

6. Intruder

7. Christabel ‘26

8. Influence

9. Family Funeral

10. October All The Time

Catch Chat Pile at ArcTanGent this August.

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