Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo have released ‘Demon Time’, another beguiling single from their upcoming collaborative LP “In the Earth Again“. “Speaking to Yeats’ widening gyre, things are falling apart,” Chat Pile’s Raygun Busch said in a press release. “Bad to worse or painful move towards something better is anyone’s guess, but we are living through a difficult time. The cycle continues forever, though. This is one of the first songs we recorded for the new record and is the wellspring from which the rest of the lyrical ideas flow.” Hayden Pedigo added: “This track feels like the gateway to the rest of the album. The calm before the storm. It might be my favorite track on the record just because it sets the tone so well. It’s eerie calm, and you know something might be coming around the corner.”
In some ways, Chat Pile’s sludgy noise rock and Hayden Pedigo’s tender, acoustic fingerpicking seem worlds apart. In other ways, though, the two are closer to each other than a passerby (or either of the respective fanbases) might realize. On “In the Earth Again“, their full-length collaboration, Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo burrow themselves in the soil of that common ground, mining it for a set of moody, vulnerable, affecting compositions.
That might mean supplementing Chat Pile’s chromatic riffage and intensity with Pedigo’s masterful guitar work (like on “Never Say Die!” or “The Matador”) or injecting Pedigo’s contemplative, atmospheric playing with Chat Pile’s feedback-laden tones and apocalyptic feel (as heard on cuts like “Demon Time” or “Radioactive Dreams”). Either way, the end result is a shockingly seamless meeting of the two acts, and one that feels greater than the sum of its parts.
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