Track of the Day: Car Seat Headrest – “Nervous Young Inhumans" from the new album, Twin Fantasy, released Feb. 16 on Matador Records.
Will Toledo went back into an actual studio in 2016 and recreated the 2011 debut album, Twin Fantasy, he originally recorded on a laptop. Same songs, bigger budget. “It took eight months to get the drums right.”
Matador includes both the 2011 and 2016 tracks on the new release. The label says, “Toledo never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at 19 on a cheap laptop, and you’ll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” – thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it.
Car Seat Headrest play the Commodore Ballroom on Friday, July 13 with Naked Giants opening. Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 23 at 10 a.m.
