Who Loves The Sun

Pitchfork 7.6/10 The Oklahoma sludge-metal band has never spoken in subtleties, but its third album is its most pointed statement yet: a merciless depiction of a world in decline.

The Needle Drop 9/10 Chat Pile outdo themselves on Who Loves the Sun.

The Line of Best Fit 9/10 Leave it to Chat Pile to turn a compendium of horrors into something exquisite.

Kerrang! 4/5 With more of what existing devotees demand, plus a few degrees of increasing accessibility, Who Loves The Sun suggests that as the climate around them heats up, so do Chat Pile.

Clash 9/10 ‘Who Loves The Sun’ is an extraordinary record; a layered portrait of a world sleepwalking into disaster that is somehow gripping and even fun, in a mosh-the-pain-away manner.

Distorted Sound 8/10 On Who Loves the Sun, Oklahoma Sludge-metal aficionados Chat Pile dive neck deep into a realm of existential dread in a tantalisingly goosebump-inducing album.

Pop Matters 8/10 It is bleak, powerful stuff, a stiff cocktail of unsettling images and a balance of noise and melody. If you are not a fan, Who Loves the Sun is unlikely to convert you, but it is hard to imagine fans of the band being disappointed.

The Guardian 3/5 Chat Pile remain stuck between their debut and something equally distinctive, but there’s enough here to renew faith they’ll get there.

Spectrum Culture 84% Chat Pile’s sludgy take on metal and post-hardcore is full of clang and roil, and it suits the themes exactly, making Who Loves the Sun the perfect soundtrack for the apocalypse as it approaches in that classic Hemingway fashion: slowly, and then all at once.

Beats Per Minute 90% The vocals are more inhuman, the rhythms more enforced, the guitar riffs more complex and alien. Yet within all this darkness, beauty still resides: you want to sing along to every track of this journey towards eternal human autumn.