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Oct 10, 2024Chat Pile leaves it all on the table. Everything they screamed about in God’s Country has been brought to all of humankind. Cool World is darker, bleaker, grimier, and more violent. The lyrics make the musicianship haunting, and the musicianship makes the lyrics tormented.
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Nov 21, 2024An even more clearly defined rendering of the group's sound.
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Oct 11, 2024Cool World is instrumentally gripping, vocally enthralling, and lyrically calls out the horrors of late-stage capitalism.
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Oct 16, 2024The record is in no way a fall from grace of drop of form. It’s the uglier, more poetic and brooding cousin of the debut. A proof of sheer willpower, yet still a transitional work of a band growing comfortably into their future.
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Dec 19, 2024While retaining the quartet’s trademark sludge-infused approach, this record reflects a surprisingly wide range of influence.
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Nov 6, 2024While it's missing some of the frantic, desperate immediacy of God's Country, Cool World sees Chat Pile exploring their sound and aggressively antagonizing the world around them.
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Oct 28, 2024There is no catharsis, just an unflinching account of the violence we inflict on each other on an individual and global scale. It makes for the most uneasy but essential listening.
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Oct 18, 2024The results are two fistfuls of noise-rock at least as potent lyrically as anything on God’s Country and arguably harder musically, for a few reasons.
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Oct 10, 2024Bleak as all hell, then, yet somehow this uncompromising music seems so in tune with the times that Chat Pile could genuinely be on the cusp of a major breakthrough. Don’t miss out.
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Oct 10, 2024There’s nothing on this album quite as obviously anthemic as God’s Country standout “Why,” but Chat Pile’s grooves are charming enough to get one to listen along and hear them out. Once their austere message registers, it’s impossible to un-hear it.
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Oct 15, 2024Although Cool World doesn’t stomp with the same weight of God’s Country, Chat Pile’s stylistic experiments pay off.
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The WireOct 22, 2024There is a sense of overwhelming resignation perhaps best summed up by “Shame” with its line “and god remained silent”. On “Tape” they proclaim, “Earth keeps the most vile things displayed” , their fight redirected towards gluttonous voyeurs. The previous track “Camcorder” ends with “Let’s watch it again”. [oct 2024, p.48]
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Oct 10, 2024The music is loud but measured, and the guitars on tracks like “Frownland” have the dirty, rumbling tonality of a lawnmower. By and large, though, Cool World is fierce, direct, and free of the kayfabe that plagues many metal acts.
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