Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you'll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls Inchthe sound of failureInch - thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Will's first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird S*x, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it. Album Tracks 1. My Boy (Twin Fantasy) 2. Beach Life-In-Death 3. Stop Smoking (We Love You) 4. Sober to Death 5. Nervous Young Inhumans 6. Bodys 7. Cute Thing 8. High to Death 9. Famous Prophets (Stars) 10. Twin Fantasy (Those Boys) 1. My Boy (Twin Fantasy) 2. Beach Life-In-Death 3. Stop Smoking (We Love You) 4. Sober to Death 5. Nervous Young Inhumans 6. Bodys 7. Cute Thing 8. High to Death 9. Famous Prophets (Stars) 10. Twin Fantasy (Those Boys)

The one-man band of a car seat headrest (Car Seat Headrest) is a Virginia-born 22-year-old singer-songwriter Will Toledo (Will Toledo). Although domestic emerging rookie In-known musicians have gone through band camp it had already released 11 albums have it's own chapter. With a vision that is both sweeping in scope and intimately personal, Car Seat Headrest embodies the DIY ethos at it's best. Car Seat Headrest began in 2010 in Will's hometown of Leesburg, Virginia. Needing a place of solitude (and soundproofing) where he could record his often frantic vocals undisturbed, a 17-year old Will set up shop in the family car (hence the name). Album Tracks 1. Sunburned Shirts 2. The Drum 3. Something Soon 4. No Passion 5. Times to Die 6. Past, Teenagers, Take Off Your Clothes 7. Strangers 8. Maud Gone 9. Los Barrachos (I Don't Have Any Hope Left, But the Weather Is Nice) 10. Bad Role Models, Old Idols Exhumed (PSST Teenagers, Put Your Clothes Back on) 11. Oh! Starving

With Teens of Denial, his first real InchstudioInch album with an actual band, Will Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic rock grandeur and huge (if detailed and personal) narrative ambitions, with nods to the Cars, Pavement, Jonathan Richman, Wire, and William Onyeabor. Teens of Denial refracts Toledo's particular, personal story of one difficult year through cultural touchstones such as the biography of Frank Sinatra, the evolution of the Me Generation as seen in Mad Men and elsewhere, plus elements of Eastern and Western theology. The whole thing flaunts a kind of conceptual, lyrical, and musical ambition that has been missing from far too much 21st-century music. Horns, keyboards, and elegant instrumental interludes set off art-garage moments; vivid vocal harmonies follow punk frenzy. The selfish captain of the capsized cruise liner in the Mediterranean in 2013 becomes a metaphor for struggles of the individual in society, as experienced by one hungover young man on the verge of adulthood. Album Tracks 1. Fill in the Blank 2. Vincent 3. Destroyed By Hippie Powers 4. (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs with Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem) 5. Just What I Needed / Not Just What I Needed 6. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales 7. 1937 State Park 8. Unforgiving Girl (She's Not An) 9. Cosmic Hero 10. The Ballad of the Costa Concordia 11. Connect the Dots (The Saga of Frank Sinatra) 12. Joe Goes to School