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Matador

Car Seat Headrest

Teens Of Denial

'Teens of Denial' is the thirteenth album in Car Seat Headrest's (aka 23-year-old Will Toledo) oeuvre, second on Matador, and first to be recorded in a proper studio with a full band and producer (Steve Fisk). On Denial, Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic-rock grandeur and huge (if detailed and personal) narrative ambitions, with nods to the Cars, Pavement, Jonathan Richman, Wire, and William Onyeabor. By turns tender and caustic, empathetic and solipsistic, literary and vernacular, profound and profane, self-loathing and self-aggrandizing, he conjures a specifically 21st century mindset, a product of information overload, the loneliness it can foster, and the escape music can provide. At the heart of the album sits the 11:32 'Ballad of the Costa Concordia,' which has more musical ideas than most whole albums (and at that length, it uses them all). Horns, keyboards, and elegant instrumental interludes set off art-garage moments; vivid vocal harmonies follow punk frenzy. The selfish captain of the capsized cruise liner in the Mediterranean in 2013 becomes a metaphor for struggles of the individual in society, as experienced by one hungover young man on the verge of adulthood. 2LP - Double Vinyl with Download.

Tracklist

• 01. Fill In The Blank
  02. Vincent
  03. Destroyed By Hippie Powers
  04. (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn’t a Problem)
  05. Just What I Needed/Not Just What I Needed
  06. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
  07. 1937 State Park
  08. Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not An)
  09. Cosmic Hero
  10. The Ballad of the Costa Concordia
  11. Connect the Dots (The Saga of Frank Sinatra)
  12. Joe Goes to School