Cool World

Chat Pile

Cool World

Second full-length album from Oklahoma City noise rock band produced by Ben Greenberg

ADM rating[?]

8.0

Label
Flenser
UK Release date
11/10/2024
US Release date
11/10/2024
  1. 10.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Chat 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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  2. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Cool World is instrumentally gripping, vocally enthralling, and lyrically calls out the horrors of late-stage capitalism
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  3. 8.5 |   Northern Transmissions

    Chat Pile has definitely covered all the bases that tickle my fancy. The album in full is a great fucking listen, and I can’t wait to hear this beast live
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  4. 8.4 |   Beats Per Minute

    The 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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  5. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    While 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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  6. 8.0 |   Kerrang!

    Bleak 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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  7. 7.9 |   Paste Magazine

    The OKC noise rockers expand their sonic and subjective scope to prove just how desperate of a situation we’re all in
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  8. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    On an album that paints a panoramic view of human suffering, the Oklahoma City group sometimes sacrifices ferocity as it expands its muscular sludge-metal sound
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  9. 7.0 |   Slant Magazine

    The album leaves the ears ringing and paints a disquieting vision of modern America.
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