{"product_id":"chat-pile-cool-world-vinyl-super-ltd-excl-ed-variants","title":"CHAT PILE - COOL WORLD VINYL (SUPER LTD. EXCL. ED. VARIANTS)","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eVENUS VINYL OF THE YEAR 2024 - NO. 1!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e18th October 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe 2nd album from the Oklahoma City rock band sees them brilliantly blurring the lines even further between noise, sludge, post-hardcore, metal, goth and all things alternative rock - even including some sonic nods to nu-metal (only the good bits!). Chat Pile are an angry band for an age of apathy in the face of a crumbling, chaotic and catastrophic (cool) world.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFor Fans Of: Thou, The Jesus Lizard, Portrayal of Guilt, Shellac\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has stuck as strong of a chord as it has. Dread has replaced the American dream, and Chat Pile’s music is a poignant reminder of that shift—a portrait of an American rock band molded by a society defined by its cold and cruel power systems. Though very much on-brand with Chat Pile’s signature flavor of cacophonous, sludgy noise rock, the band’s shift to a global thematic focus on Cool World not only compliments the broader experimentations it employs with their songwriting but also how they dissect the album’s core theme of violence. Melded into the band’s twisted foundational sound are traces of other eclectic genre stylings, with examples of gazy, goth-tinged dirges to abrasive yet anthemic alt\/indie-esque hooks and off-kilter metal grooves only scratching the surface of what can be heard in the album’s ten tracks. Besides stylistically stretching the boundaries of the Chat Pile sound, Cool World is also the band’s first record to have someone else handle mixing duties, with Ben Greenberg (Uniform) capturing and further amplifying the quartet’s unmistakably outsider and folk-art edge. While Chat Pile’s debut album was plenty disturbing with its B-movie-inspired interpretation of a “real American horror story”, what the band depicts on Cool World is unsettling not just from its visceral noise rock onslaught, but from depicting how all sorts of atrocities are pretty much standard parts of modern existence. In film terms, think something like a Criterion arthouse film by way of schlocky grindhouse splatterfest: undeniably gratuitous and thrilling in the moment but leaving a looming dread in the back of one’s mind for how close the horrors depicted mirror reality.\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VENUS VINYL","offers":[{"title":"LIMITED INDIE EXCLUSIVE EDITION HIGHLIGHTER YELLOW VINYL","offer_id":45334388736258,"sku":"VEV-01812","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"SUPER LIMITED INDIES EDITION NEON GREEN VINYL","offer_id":53654446834040,"sku":"VEV-01813","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"SUPER LIMITED UK EXCLUSIVE EDITION LEMON YELLOW VINYL","offer_id":45334388703490,"sku":"VEV-01814","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"BLACK VINYL","offer_id":45334388769026,"sku":"VEV-01815","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LIMITED INDIE EXCLUSIVE EDITION GOLD CASSETTE","offer_id":45334388801794,"sku":"VEV-01816","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6395\/4238\/files\/CHATPILE-COOLWORLDVINYL.jpg?v=1721293472","url":"https:\/\/venusvinyl.com\/products\/chat-pile-cool-world-vinyl-super-ltd-excl-ed-variants","provider":"VENUS VINYL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}