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Car Seat Headrest: Teen of Denial: Joe’s Story

Pitchfork·Ethan Beck·4 days ago
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Will Toledo loves to tinker. Even in the early days of his project Car Seat Headrest —back before he became widely recognized as an indie-rock wunderkind—he occasionally re-worked old songs until they felt right. (Take, for example, “Oh! Starving,” originally recorded in 2010 , then rerecorded it in 2012 and again in 2015 .) But after signing to Matador Records, Toledo took things up a notch, releasing Teens of Style , a compilation of remakes picked from his greatest non-hits scattered across his Bandcamp recordings. Notably, he didn’t redo any songs from Twin Fantasy , 2011’s dense breakup chronicle that completists considered his magnum opus; instead, he’d go on to re-record the album in its entirety. Toledo’s latest reworking takes on Car Seat Headrest’s breakthrough to the mainstream: 2016’s Teens of Denial . That record, their first album of original material for Matador, offered an infectious, literary introduction to a droll kid who wanted to carve out a spot in rock history.…

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