{"product_id":"chat-pile-who-loves-the-sun","title":"Chat Pile \"Who Loves The Sun\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a world increasingly shaped by disposable content, Chat Pile answer with something defiantly real and organic, a mentality that permeates\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Loves The Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, their third full-length record. Since the band’s formation just over six years ago, the Oklahoma City-based quartet Chat Pile has grown from a scrappy passion project into one of the defining heavy acts to emerge from the 2020s underground. Ray B. (vocals), L. Manhole (guitar), Stin (bass), and Cap’n Ron (drums) create a crushing, crass, and cathartic take on noise rock that captures a raw, undeniably human essence in an age marked by technological overreach and the cold state of society. Nothing about\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Loves The Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeels synthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhereas their debut album God’s Country depicted a particularly American flavour of dread, and the follow up Cool World showed a cruel planet defined by global systemic violence,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Loves The Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epeels the skin back on how collective indifference defines this new century. Spanning imagery of coastlines devouring cities, dead-end jobs, and submission to data-driven inauthenticity, the album dissects the apathy-bloated state of 21st-century existence as a slow-motion apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs with much of Chat Pile’s work, Oklahoma City itself looms over the album like a character, its sprawling isolation, economic contradictions, and underlying sense of decay embedded in the fabric of the record. The perfect allegory for the thematic essence of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Loves The Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the photo embossed on the record’s cover, where Devon Tower, a glassy, largely vacant monolith, looms high above the Oklahoma City skyline while a burnt-out home or storefront envelops the foreground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album remains lyrically and sonically confrontational, but Chat Pile approached the songwriting with hooks in mind, drawing on melodic tones of pre-2000s indie rock, alt-rock, and new wave. From the blood-soaked vocal passages of “Christabel ’26” to the eerie trip-hop pulse of “Same Rules,”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Loves The Sun\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis deeply human despite its allusions to a dying, divided .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chat Pile","offers":[{"title":"LIGHT BLUE","offer_id":51822086324440,"sku":"769152437736","price":44.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":51822088224984,"sku":"769152437712","price":41.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0628\/6550\/6520\/files\/ChatPileWhoLovesTheSun.webp?v=1781448687","url":"https:\/\/loudpizza.com\/en-au\/products\/chat-pile-who-loves-the-sun","provider":"LOUD PIZZA RECORDS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}