Pile have undergone a pretty sprawling musical journey as a band, from solo project to hard-driving post-hardcore group to more atmospheric art-rock group on their 2023 album “All Fiction”. Their latest single, “Uneasy,” finds them remaining in that atmospheric space, but with an immediacy and a driving pulse that makes its more ambient, electronic elements all the more accessible. Drummer Kris Kuss is the secret weapon here, providing a muscular performance that reminds us how much this band rocks, even when they’re not really rocking—not exactly anyway. But the whole thing could explode at any minute, and it’s that kind of suspense that makes it exciting.
A Sisyphean fable concerned with labor and living. “Sunshine and Balance Beams” is the bands 9th Studio Album from Pile.
“A million sweaty punks can’t be wrong”, SPIN MAGAZINE “They’ve spent the past 16 years refining what a modern-day rock band could be… a surprisingly detailed and evocative world, just beyond the limits of rock” PITCHFORK “he cult around the Boston-based post-hardcore band Pile has grown feverishly… and has since blossomed into a hard-to-pigeonhole but instantly identifiable force in underground music”
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“Pile is one of the strangest bands in rock music, and one of the best” AV CLUB, “Rock ‘n’ roll can be a lot of things — dangerous, sexy, stupid — but Pile’s rock ‘n’ roll is deranged” NPR, “best known as THE Boston Rock Band” STEREOGUM
“Pile cemented their status as one [of] the loudest, most quietly influential DIY rock bands”
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From the album “Sunshine and Balance Beams” (Out 15th August, Sooper Records).
The Fat Angel Sings 