{"product_id":"chat-pile-who-loves-the-sun-ice-blue-vinyl-lp-record","title":"Chat Pile - Who Loves The Sun - Ice Blue Vinyl LP Record","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-order: This item is expected to release 4th September 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a world increasingly shaped by disposable content, Chat Pile answer with something defiantly real and organic, a mentality that permeates Who Loves The Sun, their third full-length record. Since the band’s formation just over six years ago, the Oklahoma City-based quartet Chat Pile has grown from a scrappy passion project into one of the defining heavy acts to emerge from the 2020s underground. Ray B. (vocals), L. Manhole (guitar), Stin (bass), and Cap’n Ron (drums) create a crushing, crass, and cathartic take on noise rock that captures a raw, undeniably human essence in an age marked by technological overreach and the cold state of society. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNothing about Who Loves The Sun feels synthetic. Whereas their debut album God’s Country depicted a particularly American flavor of dread, and the follow up Cool World showed a cruel planet defined by global systemic violence, Who Loves The Sun peels the skin back on how collective indifference defines this new century. Spanning imagery of coastlines devouring cities, dead-end jobs, and submission to data-driven inauthenticity, the album dissects the apathy-bloated state of 21st-century existence as a slow-motion apocalypse. As with much of Chat Pile’s work, Oklahoma City itself looms over the album like a character, its sprawling isolation, economic contradictions, and underlying sense of decay embedded in the fabric of the record. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehe perfect allegory for the thematic essence of Who Loves The Sun is the photo embossed on the record’s cover, where Devon Tower, a glassy, largely vacant monolith, looms high above the Oklahoma City skyline while a burnt-out home or storefront envelops the foreground. The album remains lyrically and sonically confrontational, but Chat Pile approached the songwriting with hooks in mind, drawing on melodic tones of pre-2000s indie rock, alt-rock, and new wave. From the blood-soaked vocal passages of “Christabel ’26” to the eerie trip-hop pulse of “Same Rules,” Who Loves The Sun is deeply human despite its allusions to a dying, divided .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrack list:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-luminous-fast-follows enable-updated-hr-color stronger tutor-markdown-rendering\" id=\"model-response-message-contentr_6626e9f859826d53\" aria-busy=\"false\" aria-live=\"polite\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eSide A\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e1 Creature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e2 Deep Blue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e3 Same Rules\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e4 Pen I S Mall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e5 Shrine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eSide B\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e6 Intruder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e7 Christabel ’26\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e8 Influence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e9 Family Funeral\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e10 October All The Time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Flenser Record","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54293629894940,"sku":"CHPIWHLO11539","price":71.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/6066\/8345\/files\/chat-pile-who-loves-the-sun-ice-blue-vinyl-lp-record-7495307.jpg?v=1783747088","url":"https:\/\/bondirecords.com\/products\/chat-pile-who-loves-the-sun-ice-blue-vinyl-lp-record","provider":"Bondi Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}