Chat Pile make Sub Pop debut with new single and Nirvana cover

The tracks are taken from a sold-out, limited edition 7” Sub Pop single announced back in December, but will receive a repress exclusively available at Chat Pile’s live shows. This follows Chat Pile’s collaboration with Hayden Pedigo on their 2025 album In the Earth Again, as well as three previous full-length releases.

Discussing their original song “Masks” landing on Sub Pop, Chat Pile explain: “It’s a true dream to put out a single on Sub Pop, and our new song ‘Masks’ hopefully honors the spirit of the mythical, sometimes mystical, city of Seattle. Thanks in part to the movie Hype, we have long been obsessed with Seattle, the American underground of the late ‘80s, and Sub Pop and their tools of world domination. Everything we learned about packaging Chat Pile, we learned from Sub Pop co-founders Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt.”

Speaking about their cover of “Sifting”, from Nirvana’s 1989 debut album Bleach, the band add:
“We wanted to cover a song from the early Sub Pop era, and something off Bleach seemed the obvious choice. Songs like ‘Paper Cuts,’ ‘Negative Creep,’ and especially ‘Sifting’ are fairly lateral to the type of sounds we make with Chat Pile. (Perhaps next time we’ll take on a TAD song!)”

Chat Pile have also shared that they have donated $3,000 to Dream Action OK, an organisation based in Oklahoma which aims to empower the local immigrant community through education and advocacy. ”Thanks to Sub Pop for giving us the opportunity to put this single out - we hope you enjoy it,” the band note, “And most importantly, FUCK ICE!”