The Flenser

Chat Pile’s Bleak View Goes Global with ‘Cool World’

Chat Pile’s Bleak View Goes Global with ‘Cool World’

Chat Pile’s new album does not offer catharsis; it is just an unflinching account of the violence we inflict on each other on an individual and global scale.

Sprain Aim For a Masterpiece on ‘The Lamb As Effigy’

Sprain Aim For a Masterpiece on ‘The Lamb As Effigy’

Sprain’s aim at a masterpiece finds an exhaustive, immersive, and ambitious work of post-rock, noise, and poetry that intellectuals will lust after.