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Teens of style / Car Seat Headrest.

By: Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: OLE-1088-2 | Matador11088 M | MatadorPublisher: New York, NY : Matador, [2015]Copyright date: ℗2015Description: 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
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  • audio
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  • audio disc
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Contents:
Sunburned shirts -- The drum -- Something soon -- No passion -- Times to die -- Psst, teenagers, take off your clo -- Strangers -- Maud gone -- Los borrachoes (I don't have any hope left but the weather is nice) -- Bad role models, old idols exhumed (Psst, teenagers, put your clothes back on) -- Oh! starving.
Performed by Car Seat Headrest: Will Toledo, Ethan Ives, Andrew Katz, Seth Dalby.Summary: Car Seat Headrest is the project of Seattle singer-songwriter Will Toledo. With a vision that is both sweeping in scope and intimately personal, Car Seat Headrest embodies the DIY ethos at its best.
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Adult CD Adult CD Dr. James Carlson Library CD POP/ROCK Car Seat Headrest Available 33111008644375
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Car Seat Headrest began as an outlet for Will Toledo's songs of youthful joy and frustration, often recorded in the back seat of the family car, hence the band name. After 11 albums' worth of material was released on Bandcamp over a four-year span, Matador Records caught wind of Toledo and signed him up. A pretty savvy move on their part because his songs capture the best aspects of many of the band's they've had on their roster at one point or another. The soaring choruses and homemade sound of Guided by Voices, the offhanded lyrical bent and laconic delivery of Pavement, the bouncing power pop of New Pornographers, the guitar fireworks of Yo La Tengo, the naked honesty of Liz Phair, and the blown-out recording style of Times New Viking are all accounted for, yet Toledo puts it all together in his own idiosyncratic, impressive way. Teens of Style is made up of reworkings of songs from his many albums, taking his favorites and cleaning them up just a bit with the help of drummer Andrew Katz and bassist Jacob Bloom. With tracks that launch themselves out of the speakers like lo-fi anthems ("The Drum," "Sunburned Shirts"), unspool slowly as the guitars clang and hiss ("Times to Die," "Strangers"), or feed the insatiable needs of power pop fanatics who aren't afraid to get a little dirty (the almost impossibly majestic "Something Soon"), the album plays like a greatest-hits collection of a very talented kid and serves as a taste of greatness to come. The passion Toledo injects into the lyrics and vocals isn't likely to fade, his melodic skills are so strong it's hard to imagine that he'll ever run out of steam, and even if his future records don't have the gritty, cheap-as-dirt feel that this record does, it's difficult to see Toledo ever making records that are spotless and lifeless. He has the kind of writing skills and vision that you want to latch onto tightly and follow wherever they might lead. By the end of the album, as the waltzing piano ballad "Oh! Starving" fades, it's impossible not to be knocked out by what has come before and be super stoked for what might come next. ~ Tim Sendra

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Performed by Car Seat Headrest: Will Toledo, Ethan Ives, Andrew Katz, Seth Dalby.

Sunburned shirts -- The drum -- Something soon -- No passion -- Times to die -- Psst, teenagers, take off your clo -- Strangers -- Maud gone -- Los borrachoes (I don't have any hope left but the weather is nice) -- Bad role models, old idols exhumed (Psst, teenagers, put your clothes back on) -- Oh! starving.

Car Seat Headrest is the project of Seattle singer-songwriter Will Toledo. With a vision that is both sweeping in scope and intimately personal, Car Seat Headrest embodies the DIY ethos at its best.

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