"This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world": Chat Pile reveal plans for new album, Who Loves The Sun

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Who Loves The Sun follows the Oklahoma City band's 2024 album Cool World, and their 2025 album In the Earth Again, made in collaboration with singer-songwriter Hayden Pedigo. The ten tracks portray the experience of living in a "doom loop", with "Deep Blue" arriving as the first preview.

Speaking about "Deep Blue", bassist Stin explains: "This is the first track we wrote for the album and the one that helped set the tone for the whole thing. 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?"

"Technology is rapidly ruining our lives, all promise seemingly squandered on the worst things, like killing people, wasting resources, destroying art- shrinking our brains and pulling us further apart than ever before," singer Ray B. adds.

On the album, Ray B. continues, "This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world. 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." Stin adds

"This album contains a healthy dose of the usual Chat Pile airing of grievances against the state of the world," Stin adds. "But deeper at it's heart, 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." Expanding on Chat Pile's vision for Who Loves The Sun, the songs also feature contributions from Pedigo, as well as Nightosphere vocalists Claire Hannah and Brittany Sawtelle.