Chat Pile are ready to beam a new album our way. The Oklahoman noise-rock quartet have confirmed that a record called Who Loves the Sun is out later this year, though you can dive right into its first creep-stomped single, “Deep Blue,” as of today.
The album is Chat Pile’s first since 2024’s Cool World. A press release has vocalist Ray Busch praising “Deep Blue” — both melancholy and psyche-penetrating, low-undulated strings shimmering uncannily beneath depressively melodic musings and past-the-brink screams — “because it sounds like Chat Pile doing a Billy Squire song.”
“It’s our ‘Lonely Is the Night,’ which is actually a fake Led Zeppelin song so who knows what the hell we’re actually doing here,” he says, adding of the song’s thematic drive, “Technology is rapidly ruining our lives, all promise seemingly squandered on the worst things, like killing people, wasting resources, destroying art — shrinking our brains and pulling us further apart than ever before.”
A video, directed by Stephen Mondics, is just as unsettling, seemingly concerning a couple and the collection of seniors they keep captive in a basement. Without spoiling too much, it features blue-pilling, beard-combing, sensual dances bordering on abuse, weapon-wielding, unsafe practices with dry cleaning bags, maybe a severed head, and more.
Though it’s unclear if the album title is a nod to the Velvet Underground, Chat Pile do cite Boston as having some kind of a sonic influence on the record’s layering. The album is further described as reflecting “the challenges of trying to keep one’s humanity in a time of extreme anti-humanity.”
“This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world,” Busch continues. “AI, genocide, climate change, the power elite, $$$$ hoarding pigs — all that shit fucks up your life and mine.”
In spite of — or perhaps because of — closing with a song called “October All the Time,” Who Loves the Sun is due out September 4th through the Flenser. You can pre-order a limited-edition colored vinyl variant from Revolver’s shop.
You’ll find the full tracklisting and cover art down below, along with Chat Pile’s just-announced North American tour supporting the LP.
Who Loves the Sun tracklisting:
Creature
Deep Blue
Same Rules
PEN I S MALL
Shrine
Intruder
Christabel ’26
Influence
Family Funeral
October All the Time
Chat Pile North American tour dates 2026:
9/12 Oklahoma City, OK – Tower Theatre (SISU Fundraiser Fest) #
9/17 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue + $
9/19 Chicago, IL — Riot Fest
9/20 Englewood, CO – The Gothic Theatre + &
9/23 Salt Lake City, UT – The Metro Music Hall + &
9/25 Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo + &
9/27 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall + &
9/29 Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades + &
9/30 San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom + &
10/03 San Diego, CA – Music Box + &
10/04 Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco + &
10/06 Mesa, AZ – The Nile Theater + &
10/08 Austin, TX – Radio/East + &
10/09 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall + &
10/10 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater + &
11/05 Detroit, MI – The Majestic Theatre + %
11/06 Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre + %
11/08 Norwalk, CT – District Music Hall + %
11/10 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel + %
11/11 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer + %
11/12 Washington, DC – Black Cat + %
11/14 Charlotte, NC – Underground + %
11/15 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade + %
11/16 Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl + %
11/18 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall + %
11/20 Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe at Old National Centre + %
11/21 St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall + %
11/22 Lawrence, KS – The Granada + %
+ with Soul Glo
$ with Prize Horse
& with Virga
% with Shallowater
# with Portrayal of Guilt, Nightosphere, Traindodge, Primal Brain