Have you listened to Chat Pile’s Cool World lately? I have, and I can’t help but notice it feels more relevant than ever. I wish that wasn’t the case. But anyway. They followed that 2024 with the Hayden Pedigo collab LP In The Earth Again last year, and now the Oklahoma City noise-rock band is back with a gnarly new anti-ICE protest song song called “Masks,” which has been a live-show highlight since last year, and a sick cover of Nirvana’s Bleach track “Sifting.”
The tunes come from a sold-out, limited-edition 7″ Sub Pop single announced late last year. Here’s what Chat Pile said about it:
It’s a true dream to put out a single on Sub Pop, and our new song “Masks” hopefully honors the spirit of the mythical, sometimes mystical, city of Seattle. Thanks in part to the movie Hype, we have long been obsessed with Seattle, the American underground of the late ‘80s, and Sub Pop and their tools of world domination. Everything we learned about packaging Chat Pile, we learned from Sub Pop co-founders Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt.
We wanted to cover a song from the early Sub Pop era, and something off Bleach seemed the obvious choice. Songs like “Paper Cuts,” “Negative Creep,” and especially “Sifting” are fairly lateral to the type of sounds we make with Chat Pile. (Perhaps next time we’ll take on a TAD song!)
To mark the occasion, we’ve also donated $3,000 to DREAM Action OK, a community-based organization that aims to empower our local immigrant community through advocacy and education to ensure justice for all immigrants. Learn more about DAOK here.Thanks to Sub Pop for giving us the opportunity to put this single out — we hope you enjoy it.
And most importantly, FUCK ICE!
Amen to that. Check out the new tunes below.
