CHAT PILE: Cool World Vinyl LP (Highlighter Yellow)

Oklahoma City's most unsettling noise-rock band, second album, somehow even heavier.

Cool World (2024) finds Chat Pile pushing the queasy, sludge-laden noise rock of their breakout debut God's Country into more dynamic, atmospheric territory -- without losing any of the dread. Raygun Busch's strained, agonized vocal delivery sits over grinding, downtuned riffs that owe as much to the Midwest's industrial wasteland as they do to traditional noise rock lineage. This limited 'highlighter' translucent yellow vinyl pressing comes with an insert.