{"product_id":"chat-pile-gods-country-black-vinyl","title":"Chat Pile - God's Country (Black Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost anticipated debut full-length from Oklahoma-based noise rock band, \u003cstrong\u003eChat Pile\u003c\/strong\u003e. Multiple vinyl pressing of the band’s EPs on cult noise rock label Reptilian Records have quickly sold out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s a sick irony to how a country that extols rhetoric of individual freedom, in the same gasp, has no problem commodifying human life as if it were meat to feed the insatiable hunger of capitalism. If this is American nihilism taken to its absolute zenith, then \u003cem\u003eGod’s Country\u003c\/em\u003e, the first full-length record from Oklahoma City noise rock quartet \u003cstrong\u003eChat Pile\u003c\/strong\u003e is the aural embodiment of such a concept.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving lived alongside the heaps of toxic refuse that the band derives its name from, the fatalism of daily life in the American Midwest permeates throughout the works of \u003cstrong\u003eChat Pile\u003c\/strong\u003e, and especially so on its debut album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExasperated by the pandemic, the hopelessness of climate change, the cattle shoot of global capitalism, and fueled by “...lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of THC,” \u003cem\u003eGod’s Country\u003c\/em\u003e is as much of an acknowledgment of the Earth’s most assured demise as it is a snarling violent act of defiance against it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin its over forty-minute runtime, the album displays both \u003cstrong\u003eChat Pile\u003c\/strong\u003e’s most aggressively unhinged and contemplatively nuanced moments to date, drawing from its preceding two EPs and its score for the 2021 film, \u003cem\u003eTenkiller\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the band’s own words, the album is, at its heart, “Oklahoma’s specific brand of misery.” A misery intent on taking all down with it and its cacophonous chaos on its terms as opposed to idly accepting its otherwise assured fall. This is what the end of the world sounds like.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"firetalkrecs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52027831484647,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/firetalk.shop\/products\/chat-pile-gods-country-black-vinyl","provider":"firetalkrecs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}