Chat Pile - God's Country ALBUM REVIEW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2022
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A hell of a debut that isn't for the faint of heart.
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FAV TRACKS: SLAUGHTERHOUSE, WHY, WICKED PUPPET DANCE, TROPICAL BEACHES INC, THE MASK, I DON'T CARE IF I BURN, GRIMACE_SMOKING_WEED.JPEG
LEAST FAV TRACK: PAMELA
CHAT PILE - GOD'S COUNTRY / 2022 / THE FLENSER / NOISE ROCK, SLUDGE METAL
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Fantano saying “Grimace smoking weed” in a serious tone is like impossible not to laugh at
"dot jpeg" is just the cherry on top
As someone who does mutual aid work with homeless folks and also works with them as research participants, "Why?" hit harder for me than anything else on this album. It captured the prevailing emotion of pretty much all of us doing this work so well. It's hard for me to work with people every day without just being overwhelmed with anger. I stopped being sad a long time ago.
I feel ya man. Solidarity and mutual aid will see us through…I hope. It’s just so easy to get burnt out.
Feel this so hard. I work in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and this was probably the closest-hitting song I heard all year.
Pamela is my favorite track but what gave it so much power was I thought it was a song about one of the members losing a family member to drowning, until I realized it was about Jason’s mother in Friday the 13th. It’s such a depressing and dark song.
I figured it was both
Same. The reference totally went over my head. Either way, the lyrics are so brutal in a poetic sort of way
You'd never assume something titled "grimace_smoking_weed_.jpeg" would be such a mortifying experience, but here we are.
It's the reason why i love the song. You'd expect it to be unserious but it's very disturbing like a grotesque.
This album is lyrically a horror masterpiece
Horror?
@@HeyIntegrity yes
@@HeyIntegrity Definitely. Lyrics of "Pamela" or "I don't care if I burn" are some Stephen King tier stuff
@@brzmiczyniebrzmi Stephen king is the worst example of horror lmao
@@ogsnus4509 Sure thing buddy, he's garbage, whatever, it was just an example anyway.
Homelessness is a *huge* issue in OKC. “Why” makes me proud to be from the same city as these guys. I’m glad local artists are not only speaking out, but getting some love for it. Thanks Fantano.
When your names in the band are Raygun Busch, Luther manhole, Stin, and CAP'N ron, you best believe the music will be mutant.
Sad you weren’t a fan of Pamela, that was the standout on the record for me. That “I’ve given up so now all I can do is sit here and fixate on something while my brain breaks itself” theme hits close to home
I know when he sings “If only the water could bargain” is just brutal given the context
@@icosotc Honestly that line hits hard its been stuck in my head since i first heard it lol
Pamela is 2nd best track on this behind grimace.
In love with the atmosphere chat pile can create on tracks like that and Dallas beltway. My favorite is either grimace or crawlspace
agreed. Pamela is so good.
“I think stupid things like this all the time” fucking gives me chills.
eh, Slaughterhouse was their perfect song.
This Chat Pile album is so good that we can finally forget that Daughters exist.
Look I know all about what happened but Daughters as a musical project will remain one of the best. There's no way to just remove the brilliance of their last two albums.
@@ZachGatesHere Daughters who? Only Chat Pile is real
@@nickcrane8329 Yeah, Daughters who is right. I'm fine forgetting what that guy did, in all ways. Not just music, But music.
Daughters, but tuned to A, and not fronted by a total piece of shit, but someone who can actually WRITE from the perspective of a total piece of shit instead of drawing from experience.
No musical comparison.
What an amazing album cover.
yapp, its the oklahoma city state prison by the way.
@@nimaxx That's funny, I'm surprised I didn't recognize it, then.
@@nimaxx it’s the Oklahoma County jail in downtown OKC.
I always confuse it for a White Ward record
Pamela is my favorite on the album. They do post punk so well and the understated, lower register vocals pair perfectly with the lyrics about a man who has resigned himself to staring at the lake that took his son and numbly wishing for death, until the climactic screams of “RESURRECT MY SON,” that is
Pamela went so fucking hard
I’m glad someone else noticed how much they appreciate post punk/gothic rock
thats that joy divison goes sludgy song.
anyone who wants more of that sound from them, check out The Mask (different song than Mask) on their Remove Your Skin Please EP. shit almost has a Protomartyr vibe.
pamela is from the perspective of jason voorhees' mother
Grimace smoking weed was honestly really hard to listen to. it was the most emotionally harrowing songs I've heard in years. amazing album
It is. I have to skip the suicidal episode but everything else is headbang worthy
Has a very similar vibe as the song "Metallica" by Black Sheep Wall, only it gets the sentiment across in one third of the time.
Bro, I *love* it
I cannot help but laugh at the image of grimace smoking weed coming into a heroin addict's room while he kills himself and has a one-sided conversation with him before he kills himself.
It is so fuckin funny
@@baronvonbeandipthe imagery is hilarious. But the metaphors to what grimace represents as it forcefully imposes itself. He can’t escape. No where is sacred.
These are the 32 scores from the records in the 2022 Loved List!
1- (STRONG 9)
Viagra Boys - Cave World
2- (Decent to STRONG 9)
Black Midi - Hellfire
T3- (DECENT to Strong 9)
Black Country,New Road - Ants From Up There
Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
T5- (LIGHT to Decent 9)
Baby - Petrol Girls
Silvana Estrada - Marchita
T7- (Strong 8 to a LIGHT 9)
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Conway the Machine - God Don’t Make Mistakes
9- (STRONG 8 to a Light 9)
billy woods - Aethiopes
10-(STRONG 8)
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
Chat Pile - God’s Country
T-12 (DECENT to Strong 8)
Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future
FKA twigs - Caprisongs
Gospel - The Loser
Leikeli47 - Shape Up
Lupe Fiasco - Drill Music in Zion
Otoboke Beaver - Super Champon
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
T-19 (Light to DECENT 8)
Artificial Brain - Self Titled
Foxtails - fawn
Kralice - Crystalline Exhaustion
T-22 (LIGHT to Decent 8)
Beach House - Once Twice Melody
Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry
T-24 (LIGHT 8)
Daniel Rossen - You Belong There
JER - Bothered / Unbothered
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Wormrot - Hiss
T-28 (Strong 7 to a LIGHT 8)
Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 4
Black Dresses - Forget Your Own Face
Bladee & Ecco2k - Crest
Kilo Kish - American Gurl
The Weeknd - Dawn FM
@DaBlubi Melon's Website iirc
Good bot. Much thank.
Why are there two light to decent 8 tiers?
@@LitCactus I believe the capitalized one is the score he shows on screen in the graphic but he always says "light to decent"
What’s the difference between 2 and T3? Decent to STRONG and DECENT to Strong?
Saw this band in Little Rock and they fucking killed it. Turnout wasn’t all that big but they got the pit going with a vengeance. Singer looked like he was about to either shit himself or die the entire time.
that's exactly what all metal lead singers should aim for.
YO I WAS THERE 🤘🏼
@@kyler3366 WHATS GOOD
Turnout is never great in The Rock. I saw Shabbaz Palaces and Beach House there a while back with maybe 70 people at one show and a few hundred at the other. They still put on a good shows, but if it ain't the latest goober country artist that appeals to the Cabbot White Flight...turnout is always small.
@@scottieray yuppp the metal scene and the punk scene here are kinda merged and the whole thing is really only a few dozen people
Surprised he didn't pick up on the major Korn Influence here. They nailed how "Self Titled" feels, in a way Korn themselves have never really been able to re-create.
Came here to see if anyone mentioned Korn. The outro to Tropical Beaches Inc sounds like Here To Stay!
@@deathmilk475 It also sounds like Insane. But Korn having songs that sound like other Korn songs is just kind of how they do.
agree there's similarities
That’s exactly what I thought about listening to this album. Korn was a major player for these guys. Fucking love how hard this album kicks.
Surprisingly only one member likes Korn and says they are an influence if I’m not mistaken.
Bruh Pamela is one of the best songs….. it sinks deeper and deeper
I wish he went more into it being about a guy who's son drowned and the effect that grief has on someone's life. I'm obsessed with pamela
My son was diagnosed with brain cancer in October, I can hardly even get through the song these days it’s so dam heart wrenching. Only chat pile can make me feel feelings like that.
every comparison band you mentioned is spot on...Slint, Big Black, Jesus Lizard, Godflesh, but you missed the obvious KoRn influence with the guitar work. such a sick combo of sounds
Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop” makes anything on this album seem like yacht rock. But I like it.
spot on
Yeah this thing is relentless. Had a mutual recommend it and it's genuinely one of the most distorted, blown out things I've heard this year. I'm excited to see where this project goes in the future, because this production and compositional work RIPS. Glad to see it getting covered and I hope this helps it get more notoriety!
Distorted and blown out are words I would use to describe an album I didn't like.
They're positives to you?
@@ZyrusSmith It is okay when people like loudness
Remove Your Skin Please is, I think, even more intense.
@@ZyrusSmith it's a noise and metal album so yeah they're typically positives in this context if done right
@@UncannyXander Loudness, I understand. But being "blown out" typically means the gain is too high or some other production error that could ruin a mix. I've never heard that term used in a positive context.
This album goes hard, glad it’s well received
Had this album on repeat since it dropped last friday, its so good, so crushing. Can't get enough of it. AOTY contender for sure.
Could not agree more, I can't stop listening to "Why".
Also love y'all and your channel!
ME TOO! I'm totally hooked! Shout out to you Ricky. I have always liked your taste of music, shown by the band shirts you wear. You and Elliot rule. Keep up the great work. HIGH FIVE!!!
Man, I fucking knew it. Props
I'm happy to hear Kanye getting a 8/10 for his gospel album this time around
let’s go kanye!
Gayfish yo
What you talkin bout? This is a Blake Shelton album.
God's country this is war
Heey I’m Just a young mexican that smokes weed on my TH-cam channel,tryna make it out the hood. I also ate burger king inside target 😬😬
I went into this blind after seeing the yellow flannel and the noise rock tag in the description. The scream in I Don't Care if I Burn made me literally jump. It was blood chilling. What an amazing record. Thanks for reviewing it and making it known to me. Keep up the good work melon, hope you have a good week :)
Still listen to that ep you covered a while back. Chat Pile slaps
I stumbled across this album without knowing anything about it or Chatpile and had one of those music moments where you just smile while listening. Such a unique and powerful album. It’s as if Korn and Daughters married and decided to get more avant-garde.
Really hope this encourages more people to check out the flenser as well, brilliant label
I knew chat pile was gonna blow up the moment I first listened to them, very grateful for anthony giving them the recognition they deserve. chat pile forever
that new scarcity record is also straight fire
@@GRIFTYRODRIGUEZ it’s so good!! One of my favourite bm releases I’ve heard in a while
Maybe my favorite label period
Yeah fantastic label! My favorite with Drag City records
The Flenser really do be putting out BANGER projects and artists
Grimace is the perfect blunt rotation all on his own.
from twitter to the tube
I'M PURPLE MAN TOO
im nodding out, TOO@@the3rdconstant564
Absolutely love this record. As someone who has been listening to extreme metal, hardcore, and noise stuff for well over a decade now.. I truly haven’t listened to a record as genuine and terrifying as this one in many years. So happy with this release
Still killing it I see, Anthony. Find most of my stuff, or the best stuff out there, from either you or Pitchfork. You are my two primary resources. These guys kinda remind me of Swans. Very intense and creepy. I like the strong 8, as I know you're a hard-grader.
Found this band by accident and it caught my attention as being incredibly odd, unique and very diffrent. Sooooo heavy. I find myself just repeating....."now I just stare at the lake...." real creepy in my head.
Discovered this album yesterday. I don't like metal. I don't like sludge. Yet it's the most vital and amazing thing I've heard in recent times.
Can't thank you enough for introducing me to Chat Pile. The first time I listened to it when you released this video I skimmed through it and put it to the side. Decided to give it another try a week ago and it's all I want to hear now. One of my favorite releases.
The album perfectly captures what it's like to be born and live in Oklahoma. Fantastic
It sounds terrifying.
Brutal Truth sounds like a savage af Nirvana song
Sounds like Nirvana meets Daughters with a death metal girlfriend
I knew this would be a yellow. It's like Daughters but sludge and a band that clearly likes Korn
I get the intent but don’t over complicate things lol. They fit in the niche of post hardcore that the Jesus Lizard occupy with some notes of sludge and other types of metal
On second though reading this back I didn’t do much better
@@tpags7398 You objectively did much worse lmao
And SOAD
@@Soap20000 I don’t hear nearly any Soad in this
You know it's gonna be fire if there's a Bandcamp link in the description
Right now tied with black midi for my favorite release this year. What a dark harrowing journey this album is.
For me it’s
Hellfire-Black midi
Fear of the dawn- Jack White
God’s country- Chat Pile
For me it’s this and Beyoncés new album is pretty amazing
yeah same, along with just mustards new album
for me its the three b's
Beach House
BCNR
Big thief
SAME
Very excited to see this band get a full length release. Really been enjoying their EPs.
Just found out about their new album thanks to Mr. Yellow Flannel Man.
Thanks Antony
"Why" is so visceral. One of the most brutal tracks I've ever heard
I’ve been huge on these guys since they dropped their split with Portrayal of Guilt last year. Super stoked that their debut album is so sick and that it has been getting such a positive reaction from the wider music community
That split absolutely FUCKS
Prottayal of guilt is a good band. This one is mediocre.
Heard about this band from Fantano when he did a review of their Remove Your Skin Please EP and I've been in in awe of their music ever since. Some severely soul-crushing yet beautiful music. This may be my album of the year.
metal review? It’s a good day.
Saw this in my recommended on Bandcamp. Good stuff.
The song “Why” is so incredibly good and sends a message a vast majority of Americans feel I their hearts
I've heard Slaughterhouse and Why? a couple times now, but I don't think I can honestly get through the rest of the record with how harrowing those two tracks are. Terrific band, and I hope to be in a place to experience this record in full someday.
I don’t blame you. The closing track is especially nightmare-inducing.
Yeah if Slaughterhouse and Why are too much for you, avoid grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg at all costs
Love when cue-ball dives into The Flenser stuff.
I saw these guys right before the pandemic hit. Really set the tone for the next two years.
I really enjoyed another project that came out on The Flenser a few weeks before this one : Scarcity. You should check it out!
Thanks for the awesome recommendation! You should try to get ahold of these guys for an interview!
Steve Albini needs to record them
I love this album. “Anywhere” is my favorite track.
My friend recommended this band to me starting with Dallas Beltway and I got addicted almost immediately. Something about their screaming and way of singing is uncanny to me and as he said sounds like a legit mental breakdown and combined with that “live” echoey aesthetic their music is just unlike any others and I love it.
I discovered these guys in 2019 and I felt like I was resurrecting my love for such visceral, dark rumbling music. I guess my tastes started to shift when I was in a relationship with someone who hated everything I listened to, so I finally return to form!
Been digging this band since you shouted out those EPs a few years back, and absolutely love this thing. Utter monstrous catharsis… I need to see this band live on lysergics and cry hysterically. Love it! 🤘✊♾
Such a terrifying album. 'I don't care if I burn' reminded me of 'Frankie Teardrop' with the jump-scare scream. And grimace_smoking_weed.jpg is like a bad trip that won't end.
I love this band now and can't get enough of this album! Thanks for another one Mr. Fantano.
This album is so fuckin gnarly and pummeling, probably my favorite thing I've heard all year so far.
anthony puts me onto some really great bands! I really like Chat Pile now and ive only heard the first song on the new album
So happy these guys finally dropped a full album and just as happy it rules.
Wicked Puppet Dance was a killer single, but damn that video was a trip. Loved everything the band has put out so far, will be checking out the full album soon as I can.
*HELL FUCKING YEAH THIS ALBUM GOES HARD!!*
Absolutely checking this out - every influence you mentioned is quite exciting
Hey Anthony, punk band Unwritten Law just released their first album in 11 years! I'd love to see a review.
Not even a fan of this kind of music but this album blew me away
Chat Pile interview plss
Why is one of the funniest and saddest songs I’ve ever heard. The lyrics are really grim but I’m always in tears laughing when I hear “have you ever had ringworm?”
SCABIES??
Why?
Chat Pile has a really weird vibe where the lyrics are almost like the vocalist is so furious and desperate that random thoughts just spring into mind. 'Unhinged' is a good description.
I'VE NEVER HAD TO PUSH ALL OF MY SHIT AROUND IN A SHOPPING CART, HAVE YOU?!
Cringe song
Easily one of the top albums of 2022. Can't get enough.
This debut album is absolutely incredible. So thick and dark. Production, everything.
This is definitely one of my favorites of the year, light to decent 9 for me. Such a huge monstrous album.
I’m happy you talked a bit more of the closer. It was a hard listen for me as well, it was very triggering. But i feel like emotions of dread self destruction must be adressed and be lived and explored so we don’t actually turn on ourselves, know what i mean?
This album is brutal. Love the bass tone
I didn't know about this. Gonna check it out. Thanks Fantano.
it’s so sick to be getting some Oklahoma recognition from the melon himself, thanks Anthony!
Ah, I see you’ve been taking My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Ieros recommendations Anthony!
I really think you should check out prince daddy and the hyenas new self titled album, the song writing got even better from Cosmic Thrill Seekers and Kory has done a lot of work on his vocal delivery and variety
That is one clean as fuck album cover
Bro the SOAD influence in slaughterhouse is so dope
Are you going to review the Domi and JD Beck record
this album is such a banger. hit me at the right moment because damn I was in the mood for some depraved sludge
I absolutely love the story that each song brings, especially The Mask. A beautiful album by a beautiful band.
I was having such a pleasant night, why did you have to post
When you are listening to Pamela, imagine it is Bill Murray’s green keeper character from the movie caddy shack singing. Perfect
Carl Speckler singing Pamela…awesome!
Grimace fucked me up really bad. I've never known what being sad from listening to music is like until now
Anthony has now used the word "harrowing" 4 times this week
It’s a good word
Noise rock's "TRAP INFLUENCED"
Harrowing week innit
Sometimes music just makes you feel like wheat
Hell yes this album is so good. Do wish there was a track like brutal truth but happy with what it is
I would maybe push to a 9. This is going to be a contender for my AOTY.
too scared to listen to this album but happy for you
"If we see someone who IS homeless, it is most definitely due to a personal or moral failing of some sort." - Melon
Damn...
Of course melon will love angry office worker music.
You know, as much as it pains me, I can't help thinking of parallels to Daughters LP, the YWGWYW. This is almost as harrowing and it's definitely as good, in my opinion
agree w this
with chat pile and street sects around I don't rly miss daughters anymore
It's a good replacement
Get over with it. People are complex. People who do bad things can make good music.
@@HeyIntegrity why do you care so much what other people choose not to listen to lmfao, it doesn't affect you
@@HeyIntegrity true. Not anymore they can't, though
Still can’t believe this guy is sitting down
hell of a posture there.
Loved this album! But I gotta ask: no Imperial Triumphant review? :(
Didn’t think anything could top the New Black Midi for me this year until I heard this. Absolutely amazing, possibly a 10 for me
I don’t know how to ever get a response or even have you read my shit.
With your Lingua Ignota review and now this review, I wanna see your response to The Body and Big|Brave collab album Leaving None But Small Birds.
Dope folky noise album that is so out of left field for The Body, but my favortite album of 2021
I was wondering could
You do a review of Dance Gavin Dance’s Jackpot Jucier maybe :0
wow favroite album of the year so far, thanks tano
I don't usually listen to hard metal or rock, but this album is insane and gripping
You should listen to crawlspace by them if you haven't yet, one of their best songs imo
Thank you Anthony. This band is amazing