The Scholars (Vinyl) - By:Car Seat Headrest - Model Number: OLE2132LP

Description

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.™

Gatefold vinyl with 28-page booklet.

Label
Matador

Tracks & Genre

RHYTHM