Chat Pile Reveal “Frownland” Music Video,
Embark on North American Tour
New LP Cool World is out now on The Flenser
Photo by Matthew Zagorski
Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile released their sophomore LP Cool World just shy of three weeks ago and now, the band is getting ready for leg one of their North American tour spanning October 31 through November 22. The tour kicks off with two hometown shows in Oklahoma City then traverses the midwest into Canada, followed by a string of east coast shows. The second leg of the tour runs February through March around Texas and along the west coast of the U.S. and Canada— check out all tour dates listed below.
Today, Chat Pile have shared a music video for Cool World single, "Frownland." Director Matthew Zagorski comments on the video treatment: "When I first heard this song, I heard despair, so I wanted the video to start off troubling. The main character laying there in the rubble of his old life, digging through the ruins of what used to be. I was dealing with extreme feelings of loneliness and not feeling worthy at the time of piecing together this video and it really bled into the narrative."
Directed by: Matthew Zagorski
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.
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, and the record itself is apocalyptically bleak. 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.
Chat Pile on tour:
Oct. 31 Oklahoma City, OK - 89th Street $ [sold out]
Nov. 01 Oklahoma City, OK - 89th Street % [sold out]
Nov. 02 Columbia, MO - The Blue Note %
Nov. 03 Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room %
Nov. 05 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall %
Nov. 06 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line %
Nov. 08 Lakewood, OH - Mahall’s # [sold out]
Nov. 09 Detroit, MI - The Majestic Theatre #
Nov. 11 Toronto, ON - The Concert Hall #
Nov. 12 Montreal, QC - Théâtre Fairmount #
Nov. 14 Burlington, VT - Showcase Lounge @ Higher Ground ^
Nov. 15 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church ^ [sold out]
Nov. 16 New York, NY - (Le) Poisson Rouge ^ [sold out]
Nov. 17 Boston, MA - The Sinclair ^ [sold out]
Nov. 19 Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery * [sold out]
Nov. 20 Richmond, VA - The Broadberry *
Nov. 21 Greensboro, NC - Hangar 1819 *
Nov. 22 Nashville, TN - The End * [sold out]
Feb. 14 Dallas, TX - Trees +
Feb. 15 Houston, TX - Secret Group +
Feb. 16 Austin, TX - Mohawk ~
Feb. 18 Albuquerque, NM - Sister Bar +
Feb. 20 Phoenix, AZ - The Nile Theater ~
Feb. 21 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar +
Feb. 22 Pomona, CA - The Glasshouse +
Feb. 23 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall ~
Feb. 25 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater ~
Feb. 26 Seattle, WA - Neumos ~
Feb. 27 Vancouver, BC - The Pearl +
Mar. 01 Calgary, AB - Commonwealth Bar +
Mat. 02 Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room +
Mar. 04 Boise, ID - Knitting Factory +
Mar. 05 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge +
Mar. 06 Denver, CO - Gothic Theater +
Apr. 19 NL Tilburg - Roadburn
Apr. 20 UK Brighton - Chalk =
Apr. 21 UK London - Earth Hall =
Apr. 23 SC Glasgow - St Luke's =
Apr. 24 UK Leeds - Irish Centre =
Apr. 25 UK Birmingham - The Crossing =
Apr. 27 BE Antwerp - Trix !
Apr. 28 FR Paris - La Maroquinerie !
Apr. 30 H Fribourg - Fri-Son !
May 01 IT Milan - Legend Club !
May 03 DE Karlsruhe - Jubez !
May 04 DE Koln - Gebaeude9 !
May 06 DE Berlin - SO36 !
May 08 DK Copenhagen - A Colossal Weekend !e
May 09 SE Stockholm - Slaktkyrkan !
May 10 NO Oslo - Desertfest !
May 11 NO Bergen - Landmark !
Jun. 05-07 Barcelona, ES - Primavera Sound
$ with Nightosphere, Nerver
% with Agriculture, Porcelain
# with Agriculture, Traindodge
^ with Mamaleek, Traindodge
* with Mamaleek, thirdface
+ with Gouge Away, Nightosphere
~ with Nightosphere
! with Agriculture
= with HIRS Collective
Cool World, track list:
- I Am Dog Now
- Shame
- Frownland
- Funny Man
- Camcorder
- Tape
- The New World
- Masc
- Milk of Human Kindness
- No Way Out
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