Sunshine and Balance Beams
by Pile
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 August 2025
- Label: Sooper
- Country: United States
- Length: 42:05
- Community rating: 3.74/5 from 12 ratings
Artists on this release: Alex Molini, Matt Connery, Rick Maguire, Kris Kuss
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Sunshine and Balance Beams' integrates lush, orchestral string arrangements and synthesizers with the band's foundational post-hardcore aggression, creating a soundscape that is both expansive and urgent. The album's production, a collaborative effort by the band, reflects its thematic core鈥攁 conceptual journey through darkness toward relief鈥攂y balancing raw, high-tension rock performances against moments of delicate, atmospheric quiet. This results in a work that revisits the group's sonic legacy while simultaneously pushing its dynamic and textural boundaries forward.
Genres
Descriptors: complex, conceptual, dissonant, experimental, abrasive, DIY, dynamic, lo-fi, emotive
Tracklist
- An Opening (03:09)
- Deep Clay (04:13)
- A Loosened Knot (05:19)
- Bouncing in Blue (05:37)
- Uneasy (02:35)
- Holds (04:15)
- Born at Night (05:29)
- Meanwhile Outside (08:18)
- Carrion Song (03:10)
Credits
- Matt Connery - guitar, production
- Kris Kuss - drums, auxiliary percussion, production
- Alex Molini - bass, synthesizer, rhodes, piano, production, additional editing
- Rick Maguire - vocals, guitar, synthesizer, production (all tracks), string composition (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10)
- Candace Clement - background vocals
- Eden Rayz - string composition and arrangement (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10), cello
- Greg Martin - string composition and arrangement (track 10)
- Josh Knowles - violin
- Francesca Caruso - violin
- John Snyder - violin
- Anna Stromer - viola
- Kira McSpice - cello
- Miranda Serra - recording, production
- Seth Manchester - mixing
- Matt Colton - mastering
- Mark Lapriore - all photography
- Izzi Vasquez - album layout, design