Chat Pile are back with a new album. Who Loves the Sun follows the Oklahoma noise-rockers’ 2024 LP Cool World and last year’s pleasantly unexpected Hayden Pedigo collab album In the Earth Again. The new LP title is a reference to the Velvet Underground’s 1970 track, but, per the band, “not in any profoundly meaningful way.” “Deep Blue” leads it off, with a video documenting strange goings on in a macabre barbershop. Watch it below.
“This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world,” singer, screamer, and songwriter Ray B. said in a press release, surprising no one. “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 continued, “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.” The single, Stin added, set the tone for the album. “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?”
The band is presently touring Down Under and will head to North America later in the year. Scroll down for all those previously announced dates.
Who Loves the Sun:
01 Creature
02 Deep Blue
03 Same Rules
04 PEN I S MALL
05 Shrine
06 Intruder
07 Christabel ’26
08 Influence
09 Family Funeral
10 October All the Time
Chat Pile:
06-11 Sydney, Australia – Manning Bar
06-12 Melbourne, Australia – Max Watts
06-13 Hobart, Australia – Dark Mofo
06-14 Brisbane, Australia – The Triffid
06-16 Adelaide, Australia – Lion Arts Factory
06-18 Auckland, New Zealand – Tuning Fork
06-19 Wellington, New Zealand – San Fran
08-06 Ancora, Portugal – Sonic Blast
08-08 Katowice, Poland – OFF Festival
08-09 Prague, Czechia – Fuchs2 ^
08-10 Budapest, Hungary – A38 ^
08-11 Vienna, Austria – Arena
08-12 Munich, Germany – Live/Evil ^
08-14 Col Du Lein, Switzerland – Palp Festival
08-19 Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory ^
08-20 Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory ^
08-22 Bristol, England – Arctangent Festival
09-12 Oklahoma City, OK – Tower Theatre (SISU Fundraiser Fest) #
09-17 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue + $
09-19 Chicago, IL – Riot Fest
09-20 Englewood, CO – The Gothic Theatre + &
09-23 Salt Lake City, UT – The Metro Music Hall + &
09-25 Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo + &
09-27 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall + &
09-29 Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades + &
09-30 San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom + &
10-03 San Diego, CA – Music Box + &
10-04 Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco + &
10-06 Mesa, AZ – The Nile Theater + &
10-08 Austin, TX – Radio/East + &
10-09 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall + &
10-10 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater + &
11-05 Detroit, MI – The Majestic Theatre + %
11-06 Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre + %
11-08 Norwalk, CT – District Music Hall + %
11-10 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel + %
11-11 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer + %
11-12 Washington, DC – Black Cat + %
11-14 Charlotte, NC – Underground + %
11-15 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade + %
11-16 Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl + %
11-18 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall + %
11-20 Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe at Old National Centre + %
11-21 St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall + %
11-22 Lawrence, KS – The Granada + %
^ with Ragana
+ with Soul Glo
$ with Prize Horse
& with Virga
% with Shallowater
# with Portrayal of Guilt, Nightosphere, Traindodge, Primal Brain
