CHAT PILE Announces New 7″ Featuring A NIRVANA Cover

Chat Pile has had one hell of a 2025. Chat Pile released a new collaborative record with Hayden Pedigo, a new live album recorded in Chicago, and now they’ve got a brand new 7″ coming on Sub Pop! Chat Pile has announced a limited-edition 7″ single featuring two studio tracks – one called “Masks” and then a reimagining of the early Nirvana song “Sifting.”

“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,” said Chat Pile of the 7″.

“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!)”

Masks is out February 6. Pre-orders via Sub Pop are available here. You can also catch Chat Pile at one of their festival appearances in 2026, though I’m guessing that’s not all we’ll hear from Chat Pile live.

8/6 Ancora PT SonicBlast Fest
8/8 Katowice PL OFF Festival
8/14 Val de Bagnes CH PALP Festival
8/22 Bristol UK ArcTanGent

Chat Pile also recently launched their own mini-label called Dungeon Earth focused on cassette-only and Bandcamp-only releases.

Dungeon Earth originally debuted with with Blood at Night I & II, a two-volume collection of noise, ambient, and improv recordings from the Cool World sessions. Then they dropped a live album called Chicago 10.18.2023 recorded live at Sleeping Village in Chicago, IL. Get it all here digitally.