Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars [2xLP]

Release Date: 5/2/2025
Label: Matador Records

The first studio album from Car Seat Headrest in five years, 'The Scholars.' From Shakespeare to Mozart to classical opera, Car Seat Headrest's Will Toledo pulled from the classics when devising the lyrics and story arc of 'The Scholars,' while the music draws, carefully, from classic rock story song cycles such as The Who's 'Tommy' and David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust.' "One thing that can be a struggle with rock operas is that the individual songs kind of get sacrificed for the flow of the plot," Toledo notes. "I didn't want to sacrifice that to make a very fluid narrative. And so this is sort of a middle ground where each song can be a character and it's like each one is coming out on center stage and they have their song and dance." While Car Seat Headrest started as Toledo's solo project, the four-piece is now fully a band. "What we've been doing more of in recent years is just taking the pulses of each other." says Toledo. "It didn't really feel to me like things got in sync in an inner feeling way until this record, with that internal communal energy. And it's become that band feeling for me in a much more realized way. That's been a big journey." It is a journey that listeners will want to embark on again and again as they absorb and discover the rich depths and clanging resonances of 'The Scholars.'

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Tracklist

1. The Scholars
2. CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)
3. Devereaux
4. Lady Gay Approximately
5. The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)
6. Equals
7. Gethsemane
8. Reality
9. Planet Desperation
10. True/False Lover
11. Scholars: Early Hack
12. TOTT1
13. Epops
14. TOTT2
15. World War
16. World War TV
17. Say My Name
18. Zebedee Dirt
19. Fallen In The Mud
20. Old Encino
21. Harmonics
22. Catastrophe
23. I Am Yours
24. Jury Duty
25. Reality
26. 0t0 2
27. Reality 0t0
28. False Life Lived
29. Black Match
30. TOTT1point2