Cool World is a Metal album by Chat Pile, originally released in 2024. On Gatefold: 33 pressings tracked, owned by 25 collectors.
About
Chat Pile’s sludgy mix of nu metal and ’90s underground rock isn’t anything new, but it’s hard to imagine it existing so comfortably at any other time. Part of it’s their willingness to traverse what in another era would’ve been uncrossable cultural lines: Pledging your allegiance to the funny, post-punk surrealism of a band like Pere Ubu (“Camcorder”) at the same time as the single-entendre misery of Korn (“Funny Man”), for example. If metal is, on some level, guitar-country, Chat Pile is firmly set in its rhythm section, which is as rumbling and inescapable as the power lines and strip-mined hills of the Middle America outside their window, leaving the guitars primarily to peel paint. Where guys this misanthropic might’ve been considered social liabilities in their past (or at least dangers to their parents and church youth group), now they sound content to stay in their rooms and pig out on memes about the world they’ve always known was in ruin. “Tape” is the peak here not because it’s the hardest but because it’s the funkiest, whatever funk means to bands like this. Forget alienation—they’re laughing.
via Apple Music
The Clerk says
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1I Am Dog Now
- A2Shame
- A3Frownland
- A4Funny Man
- A5Camcorder
Side B
- B1Tape
- B2The New World
- B3Masc
- B4Milk Of Human Kindness
- B5No Way Out
Sound DNA
- Metal
- Sludge Metal
- heavy
- cavernous
- aggressive
1st Pressings:
- Test Press (20 units)
- Eco Graphite Color Vinyl (Amoeba Records Exclusive, 100 units)
- Orange Crush And Ultra-clear Butterfly Vinyl (Zia Records Exclusive, 100 units)
- Bubblegum Pink Vinyl (Norman Records Exclusive, 100 units)
- Beer with Black Marble Vinyl (Newbury Comics Exclusive, 150 units)
- Lavender Eco Mix Vinyl (Day After Records Exclusive, 165 units)
- Orange Marbled Vinyl (Musicfearsatan Exclusive, 200 units)
- Gold Splatter Vinyl (1-2-3-4 Go! Records Exclusive, 250 Hand-numbered units)
- Gold/Black Pinwheel with White Splatter Vinyl (Evil Greed Exclusive, 300 units)
- Gold Cloudy Vinyl with Silk-Screened Cover (500 units)
- Beer, Olive Green, and Black Twister Vinyl with Silk-Screened Cover (500 units)
- Olive Green and Gold Merge with Baby Blue Splatter (1000 units)
- Ice Blue with Black Marble (1000 units)
- Highlighter Yellow Vinyl (Indie Exclusive, 3500 units)
- Lemon Yellow, Gold, and Baby Blue Splatter (Series 666 exclusive)
- Orange/Black/White Tri-color Vinyl (Guestroom Records Exclusive)
- Black
-Black Friday Edition|Silver Nugget Vinyl (300 units, optional silk-screened cover available from The Flenser! )
2nd Pressings:
- Bone, Oxblood, Olive Green Merge (Evil Greed Exclusive, 200 units)
-Oxblood [Burgundy] + [Bubble Gum] Pink Merge with Black Splatter (Evil Greed Exclusive, 200 units)
- Clear with Apple Red, Yellow & Sky Blue Splatter Vinyl (500 units)
- Aqua Blue, Hot Pink & Yellow Merge Vinyl (500 units)
- Emerald Green Cloudy Vinyl (1150 units)
- Neon Green Vinyl (1500 units)
3rd pressing:
- Burgundy/Aqua Blue/Mustard Merge (Evil Greed Exclusive 200 units)
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Cap'n RonDRUMS
- Luther ManholeGUITAR, GLOCKENSPIEL
- Raygun BuschVOCALS
- StinBASS, LOOPS , SYNTH BASS, SYNTH BASS, TAPE , SYNTH
25 collectors on Gatefold own this · 33 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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