New LP arrives September 4 via The Flenser; extensive U.S. headline tour announced
Oklahoma City noise rock band Chat Pile have announced their third full-length album, Who Loves the Sun, due out September 4 via The Flenser. Alongside the announcement, the band has unveiled the crushing first single, “Deep Blue,” accompanied by a new music video.
Watch “Deep Blue” here:
Since emerging from Oklahoma City’s underground just over six years ago, Chat Pile have evolved from a local passion project into one of heavy music’s most vital and uncompromising voices. Comprised of Ray B. (vocals), L. Manhole (guitar), Stin (bass), and Cap’n Ron (drums), the quartet has built a reputation for blending abrasive noise rock with bleak social commentary and deeply human storytelling.
Their latest effort, Who Loves the Sun, continues that tradition while expanding the band’s musical palette. According to vocalist Ray B., the album confronts many of the anxieties defining modern life.
“This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world. AI, genocide, climate change, the power elite, money-hoarding pigs — all that shit fucks up your life and mine. The band is definitely stretching out their abilities on the album, and I felt inspired to go further too.”
Bassist Stin describes the record as an exploration of maintaining humanity in an increasingly hostile world.
“This album contains a healthy dose of the usual Chat Pile airing of grievances against the state of the world, but deeper at its heart, 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.”
The first single, “Deep Blue,” helped establish the direction of the record. Stin jokingly compares it to “Chat Pile doing a Billy Squier song,” calling it their version of “Lonely Is the Night,” while Ray explains that the song examines technology’s increasingly destructive influence on everyday life.
Following the existential dread of 2022’s God’s Country and the global anxieties explored on Cool World, Who Loves the Sun widens its lens to examine collective apathy and societal collapse. Across ten tracks, the album tackles climate catastrophe, economic stagnation, technological alienation, and the erosion of authentic human connection, while incorporating stronger hooks and melodic influences drawn from classic alternative rock and new wave.
The album’s artwork reflects those themes through a distinctly Oklahoma City lens, juxtaposing the city’s towering Devon Tower against a burned-out structure in the foreground—a visual metaphor for economic disparity, broken promises, and slow-motion decay.
Who Loves the Sun arrives September 4 via The Flenser.
Who Loves the Sun Track Listing
- Creature
- Deep Blue
- Same Rules
- PEN I S MALL
- Shrine
- Intruder
- Christabel ’26
- Influence
- Family Funeral
- October All the Time
The band will support the album with an extensive U.S. headline tour throughout September, October, and November, including appearances at SISU Fundraiser Fest and Riot Fest, alongside support from Soul Glo, Virga, Shallowater, Prize Horse, Ragana, and others on select dates.
Who Loves the Sun is available for pre-order now ahead of its September 4 release