Chat Pile Detail New Album ‘Who Loves the Sun’

Chat Pile have announced a new album, Who Loves the Sun, the follow-up to 2024’s Cool World and last year’s collaborative LP with Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again. The title borrows from the Velvet Underground’s 1970 track, though the band note it’s “not in any profoundly meaningful way.”

Vocalist Ray B. addresses the record’s thematic core with characteristic bluntness. “This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world,” he said. “AI, genocide, climate change, the power elite, $$$$ hoarding pigs—all that shit fucks up your life and mine.” He also emphasized musical expansion: “The band is definitely stretching out their abilities on the album and I too felt inspired to go further—as a huge fan of Boston, I like to think Brad Delp is somewhere up there, smiling down, as I take the layering to new heights.”

Bassist Stin offered a more concise take: “I feel Who Loves the Sun is grappling with the challenges of trying to keep one’s humanity in a time of extreme anti-humanity.” Regarding the lead single, “Deep Blue,” he added, “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?” The track arrives with a video depicting unsettling scenes in a macabre barbershop.

The band is currently touring Australia and New Zealand, with European and North American dates running through autumn.