Noise rock outfit Chat Pile have digitally released their cover of Nirvana‘s “Sifting” and their own latest entry in their series of mask-oriented songs, “Masks“. Both of those outings were also issued today, February 06th, as part of a standalone 7” for SubPop. Speaking previously of these two new tracks, the band stated:
“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. 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!)
“P.S. – Fuck ICE.”