Tracklist:

1. Balance Beams (Vinyl Exclusive)
2. An Opening
3. Deep Clay
4. A Loosened Knot
5. Bouncing In Blue
6. Uneasy
7. Holds
8. Born At Night
9. Meanwhile Outside
10. Carrion Song

Piles 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 mortalityall 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 bands 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 Piles blistering realizations of some of their most accessible songwriting to date. The recording is a noticeable leap in production value, and centers Maguires vocals in new and exciting ways.