Pile

Sunshine and Balance Beams

08/15/25 SR062

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DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
Digital download of lossless audio and artwork direct from the Sooper Store. Includes exclusive download and physical-only intro track "Balance Beams".

LIMITED EDITION 12" VINYL (SMOKE)
Standard weight exclusive color vinyl pressing manufactured at Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, OH. Smoke edition (Clear with Heavy Black Swirl Vinyl). Limited Edition of 500. First Pressing. Includes exclusive download and physical-only intro track "Balance Beams". Double-sided raw paper insert containing lyrics with additional photography by cover artist Mark Lapriore. Matte finish jackets.

BLACK 12" VINYL
Standard weight black vinyl pressing manufactured at Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, OH. First Pressing. Includes exclusive download and physical-only intro track "Balance Beams". Double-sided raw paper insert containing lyrics with additional photography by cover artist Mark Lapriore. Matte finish jackets.

COMPACT DISC
Digipak CD. Includes exclusive download and physical-only intro track "Balance Beams". 4-panel Digipak with printed disc face.

CASSETTE TAPE
Includes exclusive download and physical-only intro track "Balance Beams". 3-Panel J Card. Black cassette shells with White ink imprint.

A Sisyphean fable concerned with labor and living. Sunshine and Balance Beams is the 9th Studio Album from Pile.

“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

“he cult around the Boston-based post-hardcore band Pile has grown feverishly… and has since blossomed into a hard-to-pigeonhole but instantly identifiable force in underground music”
BANDCAMP

“Pile is one of the strangest bands in rock music, and one of the best”
AV CLUB

“Rock 'n' roll can be a lot of things — dangerous, sexy, stupid — but Pile's rock 'n' roll is deranged”
NPR

“best known as THE Boston Rock Band”
STEREOGUM

“Pile cemented their status as one [of] the loudest, most quietly influential DIY rock bands”
PITCHFORK

“Apocalypse-core stunners”
BOSTON GLOBE

Matt Connery - guitar
Kris Kuss - drums and auxiliary percussion
Alex Molini - bass, synth, Rhodes, piano
Rick Maguire - vocals, guitar, and synth

Background vocals by Candace Clement
Strings on tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, and 10 (from 2:40 onwards) arranged by Eden Rayz and composed by Eden Rayz and Rick Maguire.
Strings on track 10 (up until 2:40) composed and arranged by Greg Martin

The string section:

Josh Knowles - violin
Francesca Caruso - violin
John Snyder - violin
Anna Stromer - viola
Eden Rayz - cello
Kira McSpice - cello

Recorded by Miranda Serra and mixed by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Produced by Miranda Serra and Pile
Additional editing by Alex Molini
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios

Photography by Mark Lapriore
Album layout by Izzi Vasquez

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