Their new album, Making A Door Less Open, includes electronic instrumentation and a major lyrical shift from band leader Will Toledo.
Although Car Seat Headrest hasn’t been a bonafide solo project for many years, 'Making A Door Less Open' is Toledo's first explicitly collaborative record with his band.Will Toledo picked a convenient time to start wearing a mask. The promotional photos and music videos surrounding, his 12th album as Car Seat Headrest, sees the 27-year-old donning a custom version with LED eye sockets.
Instead of following that project two years later with another batch of fresh material, he re-recorded and reworked an older fan favorite,, and chose not to do press — an odd move for an indie artist in today’s landscape. Although Car Seat Headrest hasn’t been a bonafide solo project for many years,is his first explicitly collaborative record with his band. Particularly Katz, whose influence is felt on most of the songs, and whose voice actually appears on the Beastie Boys-esque “Hollywood.
In an artist statement accompanying this new project you said you were listening to more songs and moving away from consuming full albums. Your decision to release two separate versions feels like a challenge to the concept of what an album is, with fans hearing an altered product in each format. Well, I was getting sick a lot last year. So I guess that was another way that I was prescient. It felt like every couple weeks or every month I was getting laid up again with some new sort of virus or something that was preventing me from being in full health. That kind of influenced my writing of “Can’t Cool Me Down,” which is kind of about an extreme fever state. But I wanted to divine some emotional relief from the state of being ill, which is mostly just very boring and draining.
It’s a little bit of a story song. It’s not in my voice so much, which is one reason why I gave it to Andrew [to sing]. But it is about this perspective of powerlessness and I think it’s not someone who actually lives in Hollywood and has direct experience with it. It’s the way most people experience Hollywood, which is in ads and reading articles in the newspaper about horrible people and their crimes finally coming to light.
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