"It's the sound of your world collapsing..."
God's Country, the debut album from Oklahoma band Chat Pile, celebrates the third anniversary of its release today. Released on The Flenser in 2022, God's Country dredges up the deepest, darkest guts of the modern American experience, puts them in a blender, and watches as they splatter.
Composed of vocalist Raygun Busch, guitarist Luther Manhole, bassist Stin, and drummer Captain Ron, Chat Pile's exploration of the depths has resulted in their meteoric rise since forming in 2019.
A WORD FROM STIN:
Stin reflects:
“God’s Country was made under duress in my backyard over the spring and summer of 2021. Then, due to supply and production issues brought upon by the pandemic, the album sat in limbo for nearly a year giving us plenty of time to grow massive amounts of anxiety about how it would be received. Imagine our relief when people seemed to like it! All this to say, this album could not be more of an earnestly expressed anxiety nightmare based upon our real lives personally, locally and globally at the time.”
WHY?
Sludge and doom unite in God's Country to paint the hellscape that is life in the age of deindustrialization, mass murder, homelessness, and existential dread (that's enough weed, Grimace.)
Their follow-up, 2024's Cool World, moves even further into the nightmare realm, but the band never lose their tenacity and wit. Even in the most forbidding parts of God's Country, Chat Pile pushes forward. Three years later, their efforts are more important than ever.
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