Album Of The Week: Chat Pile Cool World
Life on Earth is bleak. You may be lucky enough to be shielded from it, for now, but incredible suffering is all around you, and it’s coming for you someday too. You will die. Everyone you love will die. If you’re lucky, your own demise will happen quickly, but more likely your personal wellbeing will take an extreme downturn before then, until you barely recognize yourself anymore. Some of your most treasured relationships will decay into alienation and loathing. Addiction, homelessness, and abuse are lurking around every corner. Your body will fail you in increasingly gruesome and painful ways. The planet will continue to lash out at its stewards in apocalyptic fashion, upending what you thought was a safe and secure existence. The devastating warfare that could only happen there, not here, will someday swallow up your little patch of paradise. Rather than working to prevent these outcomes, many in power will reinforce systems that guarantee them. Numbness and despair will reign. The more you understand all…
8 Oct 18:01 · Stereogum