{"product_id":"pile-sunshine-balance-beams-new-lp-record-2025-sooper-blue-vinyl","title":"Pile - Sunshine \u0026 Balance Beams - New LP Record 2025 Sooper Boris Purple Vinyl - Indie Rock \/ Alternative Rock","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePile - Sunshine \u0026amp; Balance Beams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC: 617201805725\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLabel: SOOPER\u003cbr\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: August 15, 2025\u003cbr\u003eIn stock items ship within 48 hours\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A million sweaty punks can't be wrong\" SPIN MAGAZINE \"they've spent the past 16 years refining what a modern-day rock band could be... a surprisingly detailed and evocative world, just beyond the limits of rock\" PITCHFORK \"Pile is one of the strangest bands in rock music, and one of the best\" AV CLUB \"Apocalypse-core stunners\" BOSTON GLOBE Sunshine and Balance Beams, Pile's ninth album, is a Sisyphean parable concerned with labor and living. To write it, singer Rick Maguire inhabited \"a dark place,\" wrestling with the concept that there is no enlightenment, no end to suffering. Maguire explores workaholism, the myth of meritocracy, and acceptance of mortality-all through a devilish allegory of trudging through a shadowy forest towards the uncertain dream of a bright clearing. Pile wrestles with existential and social contradictions by evoking sonic in-betweens. The music exists somewhere in the temporary equilibrium of light and shadow, chaos and order. Heated rain-like guitars, shifting drums that pave sinuous roads in sound and pace, eerie synths, and aqueous strings add to a panoramic production of loud-quiet dynamism matching the emotionality of the band's thunderous performances. The group also favored freewheeling performances that would animate the storytelling, while enlisting a string section (violins, viola, cello) to perform incandescent, through-composed arrangements co-written by cellist Eden Rayz and Pile. They drew inspiration from cinema and opera scores by Chopin, Bernard Herrmann, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, lending Sunshine a larger-than-life sound that intensifies Pile's blistering realizations of some of their most accessible songwriting to date. The recording is a noticeable leap in production value, and centers Maguire's vocals in new and exciting ways. Pile traveled to Pawtucket, RI for two weeks of tracking at Machines with Magnets with longtime engineer Miranda Serra (Kal Marks, Kira McSpice). The album was mixed by Seth Manchester (Lightning Bolt, Mdou Moctar), and Mastered by Matt Colton (Aphex Twin, Swans, Muse). Sunshine and Balance Beams is Pile's first album for Chicago's Sooper Records.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACK LIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e1. Balance Beams\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e2. An Opening\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e3. Deep Clay\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e4. A Loosened Knot\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e5. Bouncing in Blue\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e6. Uneasy\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e7. Holds\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e8. Born at Night\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e9. Meanwhile Outside\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e10. Carrion Song\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44861442621638,"sku":"617201805725","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1377\/6983\/files\/image_1024x1024_2x_2bf03788-d624-4c19-8d1a-f4775c60df5b.webp?v=1755357913","url":"https:\/\/www.shugarecords.com\/products\/pile-sunshine-balance-beams-new-lp-record-2025-sooper-blue-vinyl","provider":"Shuga Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}