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1.
I am Dog Now 03:53
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You takeYou fucking takeI am dog nowTrash mouthVeins full of garbageI am dog now& you see nothingDestroyed noseUnrepairable skinI am dog nowNo cageNowhere to go at allI am dog nowRememberEveryone bleedsI am dog now& you see nothingWatch the red roses bloom on their shirts as they die
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Shame 03:45
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The earth felt cold untilIt burned red hot in my handsMy eyes were truthful thenI was an ignorant manThe way the bombs explodeThe way it tore up their skinI was tryin to spitThought they were killing my friendsAnd the world was quaking openWith all our fathers smilingAnd the statues rose high above usAnd god remained silentIn their parents armsThe kids were falling apartBroken tiny bodiesHolding tiny still heartsThere are myriad waysTo destroy human skinRed flesh exposed rawOver and over againAnd the world was quaking openWith all our fathers smilingAnd the statues rose high above usAnd god remained silentIt stung hot in my eyesThe illusion of justiceIt burned deep in my faceFelt unbearably selfishIn my mind right nowIt’s just horrible darknessHad to break awayKnowing no one can save usAll tears flow from the same sourceAnd the world was quaking openWith all our fathers smilingAnd the statues rose high above usAnd god remained silentShame
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Frownland 03:55
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Shadow on the wallLike I was never therePull the mask downAnd escape into the darkThey don’t wanna hear what I have to sayThe gates of heavenRough and awful thingEvery move is painDon't worry, it’s just the nightThey don’t wanna hear what I have to sayPull the mask downAnd disappear
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Funny Man 03:30
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I broke my knees upon the pearl & onyxIn the hall of trophies built to honor my fatherSpilled the blood, gave em as much as they wantedStill had to dance for my supper, still had to give them my bodyDifferent masksDifferent painBig worldSmall changeOutside there’s no mercy& not everyone can hideNot everyone gets to hideThe wicked jester is dancing and clappingAs my big strong hands kill the people they told meThere are times that I can almost believe itI can almost imagine I was meant to do this and be hereCaged lifeCaged hurtPassed downPast earthOutside there’s no mercy& not everyone can hideNot everyone gets to hideThey move the pieces on the pearl & onyxIf the horror don’t kill me, my rotten teeth willThe trophies gleam thru glass cases I polishedAll the floor has my story, all they need is more bodiesThe cruel ending is that my story continuesI help them to live but why am I living?I gave them my flesh to write the final chapterBut the blood from my sons is just a new beginningFunny man
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Camcorder 06:23
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Watch it change in my handsWatch the whole goddamn world changeEverything that I knowCompletely obliteratedWatch it change in my handsWatch the whole goddamn world changeI was driving all the wayI didn’t stop here to stay, butI can feel itBut I can feel it allAnd they were back-Out in the world thenAnd their skin was cold to the touchClose your eyes and know themClose your eyes and feel them changeEverything inside meCompletely disintegratedClose your eyes and know themClose your eyes and feel their painI was driving all the wayI didn’t stop here to stay, butI can feel itBut I can feel it allLets watch it again
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Tape 04:12
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The wheelsSpin looseMy headExplodesTheir faceMy eyesDon’t careDon’t knowIf I could I’d kill them allIt was the worst I ever sawEarth keepsThe mostVile thingsDisplayedFacesAlarmedNo truthToo lateWantedOut ofThe spaceNo wayNothingIt’s allThere onThe tapeIf I could I’d kill them allIt was the worst I ever sawI guess someone had to seeSomeone had to be horrified by what they had doneSomeone had to say something or it would have gone on forever,So I can’t wish I didn’t stop it, I can’t wish that-They made tapesWe shouldn’t have gone onto that propertyAnd even still further into the house-We should have let someone know and they could have handled it-Someone else could have handled itThey made tapesIt was the worst I ever saw
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The New World 04:30
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Must’ve been a dream I was havingMust’ve been all inside of my headEvery moment that we gave such meaningIs all drawings on the sides of caves in chalkI don’t wanna be a part of your nightmare, listen-I don’t wanna be the reason you don’t talkThe night falls whichever way it wants toThey came for them and then they made them walkThe skull speaks and it’s words are truthfulThe skull speaks as the wind curves around the rockTo be lostTo be wholeTo be boughtTo be soldTo lose hopeTo lose godTo find hateTo find lawMost are draggedMost are dragged kicking and screaming outInto the new worldMust’ve been a dream I was havingMust’ve been a delusion of pink and redEvery moment that the bird sings sweetlyCan’t be captured by the tip of the ballpoint penI couldn’t take on the weight of existenceI couldn’t watch them execute my friendsThedark falls whichever way it wants toThey came for me and then they made me walkThe skull speaks and it’s words are truthfulThe skull speaks as the wind curves around the rockTo be lostTo be wholeTo be boughtTo be soldTo lose hopeTo lose godTo find hateTo find lawMost are draggedMost are dragged kicking and screaming outInto the new worldEverything that the
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Masc 04:09
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Sorry for asking againI understand why you don’tWhy I should just close my mouthLike I don’t get the jokeI’m strangeI’m wildI’m freeI’m fineDon’t askMe inDon’t tellYour friendsITrust and bleedII caught you laughing againI know I’m lower than scumI need to keep my mouth shutBefore I look fuckin dumbI’m strangeI’m wildI’m freeI’m fineDon’t askMe inDon’t tellYour friendsITrust and bleedIYou caught me talking againYou said you don’t wanna fightBut you could stop this right nowYou could save me tonightI’m strangeI’m wildI’m freeI’m fineDon’t askMe inDon’t tellYour friendsITrust and bleedIIt’s your worldSo cutCut me openTrust and bleed
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Milk of Human Kindness 04:49
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They said the word and it wasWe bought the truth just becauseTold us to go, so we wentOut on a road rough and bentOut to protect what we loveTheir blood all over our glovesI screamed about it all nightI screamed (I screamed)I see them everywhere nowHaunt my life, you’re allowedI screamed about it all nightI screamed (I screamed)I’d heardNothing about the way they burnI screamed (I screamed)I screamed about it all night
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No Way Out 03:35
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From the time you were born it was overDreamsShattered on the groundBack then I was a believerA dreamerI got nothing nowUsed to be so much timeWe gotNo escapeNo way outFeed them liesFeed them lies-Used to be so much time(Time to pay)Used to be so much timeWe gotNo escapeNo way out
Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has struck as strong of a chord as it has. Dread has replaced the American dream, and Chat Pile’s music is a poignant reminder of that shift – a portrait of an American rock band molded by a society defined by its cold and cruel power systems.
Besides being the name of a largely forgotten (and panned) 90s film, Cool World makes for an apt title of Chat Pile’s sophomore full-length record. In the context of a Chat Pile record, the words are steeped in a grim double entendre that not only evokes imagery of a dying planet but a progression from the band’s previous work, moving the scope of its depiction of modern malaise from just “God’s country” to the entirety of humankind. “Cool World covers similar themes to our last album, except now exploded from a micro to macro scale, with thoughts specifically about disasters abroad, at home, and how they affect one another,” says vocalist Raygun Busch.
Though very much on-brand with Chat Pile’s signature flavor of cacophonous, sludgy noise rock, the band’s shift to a global thematic focus on Cool World not only compliments the broader experimentations it employs with their songwriting but also how they dissect the album’s core theme of violence. Melded into the band’s twisted foundational sound are traces of other eclectic genre stylings, with examples of gazy, goth-tinged dirges to abrasive yet anthemic alt/indie-esque hooks and off-kilter metal grooves only scratching the surface of what can be heard in the album’s ten tracks. “While we wanted our follow-up to God’s Country to still capture the immediate, uncompromising essence of Chat Pile, we also knew that with Cool World, we’d want to stretch the definition of our “sound” to reflect our tastes beyond just noise rock territory,” reflects bassist Stin. “Now that we had some form of creative comfort zones in place after hitting that milestone of putting out a full-length record, album #2 felt like the perfect opportunity to challenge those limits.” Besides stylistically stretching the boundaries of the Chat Pile sound, Cool World is also the band’s first record to have someone else handle mixing duties, with Ben Greenberg of Uniform (Algiers, Drab Majesty, Metz) capturing and further amplifying the quartet’s unmistakably outsider and folk-art edge.
The proverbial thread tying all of the experimentation on Cool World together is the depth to which Chat Pile dissects the album’s theme of violence. Whether it be the cycle of creating and passively consuming literal and figurative violence on sister tracks “Camcorder” and “Tape”, the diminishment of crimes against humanity by way of foreign policy and colonialism on “Shame”, or the mental anguish of hopelessness on “The New World”, Cool World is an apocalyptically bleak record. Sure, Chat Pile’s debut album was plenty disturbing with its B-movie-inspired interpretation of a “real American horror story”; what Chat Pile depicts on Cool World is unsettling not just from its visceral noise rock onslaught, but from depicting how all sorts of atrocities are pretty much standard parts of modern existence. In film terms, think something like a Criterion arthouse film by way of schlocky grindhouse splatterfest: undeniably gratuitous and thrilling in the moment but leaving a looming dread in the back of one’s mind for how close the horrors depicted mirror reality.
“If I had to describe the album in one sentence,” explains Busch, “It’s hard not to borrow from Voltaire, so I won’t resist – Cool World is about the price at which we eat sugar in America.”
Cool World will be released via The Flenser on October 11, 2024