Noise rockers Chat Pile have teamed up with Sub Pop for a new standalone 7″ single. That effort will play into Sub Pop‘s deep roots in the grunge scene, with a cover of Nirvana‘s “Sifting” included as the b-side. Chat Pile‘s new track “Masks” will be featured as the a-side, continuing their now growing line of mask-oriented songs.
A February 06th release date has been set with pre-orders available now SubPop & Bandcamp, with EU/UK pre-orders available through europe.subpop.com. A band exclusive color variant will also be available via their live shows.
Chat Pile collectively said of this effort:
“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!)
“P.S. – Fuck ICE.”
You don’t have to wait until February to hear “Masks” though, as the band have already performed that track live, per the below fan-filmed footage:
