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‘Being alive is kind of painful’: the bleak vision of noise rockers Chat Pile
Extracted from the vast US oilfields comes a pungent, heavy and energy-packed sound. Are noisenik outsiders Chat Pile about to become the region’s biggest export?
Positioned atop a nondescript Mexican restaurant advertising “OKC’s Best White Queso and Margaritas,” the advert featured a fisheye photo of a group of scruffy-looking men standing in front of an enormous cross. Lyrically speaking, Raygun pulled inspiration from authors such as Tolstoy, Voltaire, Nawal Al Saadawi, and Shakespeare, as well as a litany of arthouse films – August Underground, Beatriz at Dinner, Frownland, and many more. He resumed his usual duties behind the desk for this album, too, with one big change: Cool World marks the band’s first foray into also using an outside producer, Ben Greenberg of NYC noiseniks Uniform, to help polish up their new tracks.
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