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1	Car Seat Headrest is an IndieRock band located in Seattle, Washington, led by Will Toledo. The band incorporates influences from '90s AlternativeRock, Lo-Fi, {{Emo}} and (occasionally) SynthPop bands.
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3	Toledo began the Car Seat Headrest project in 2010, releasing four different albums all in one year via Bandcamp. In 2011 he released a fifth album, ''5'', which eventually morphed into ''My Back is Killing Me Baby'', and then, the work which would define his career, ''Twin Fantasy.'' It was here that many of Toledo's hallmarks--[[EpicRocking long, sprawling, multi-part songs]], heavily distorted guitar parts, and densely packed, [[SmallReferencePools sometimes obscure]] [[{{ShoutOut}} references]] to other works of art and literature—debuted.
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5	Toledo followed ''Twin Fantasy'' with ''Monomania,'' a sequel of sorts, in 2012, before releasing the double-album ''Nervous Young Man'' in 2013. ''How to Leave Town,'' which Toledo has called an EP but is about as long as ''Monomania,'' came out in 2014, made of songs Toledo cut from his next "proper" album. The next year, Car Seat Headrest was signed to Matador Records, and Toledo recruited drummer Andrew Katz, guitarist Ethan Ives, and bassist Seth Dalby to round out the band in the studio and onstage.
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7	The band's first record for Matador--and their first as a full band--was ''Teens of Style,'' composed mostly of reworked songs from ''My Back is Killing Me Baby'' and ''Monomania.'' In 2016, Car Seat Headrest relased ''Teens of Denial,'' the band's first album of new material. In 2018, The band released ''Twin Fantasy (Face to Face),'' a complete re-recording of the band's 2011 breakthrough. In 2020, they followed it up with ''Making a Door Less Open'', which combined their [[NewSoundAlbum usual alt-rock style with more Synth-Pop production techniques]].
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9	They're also somewhat known for their side-project: [[https://1traitdanger.bandcamp.com/ One Trait Danger]], a comedic rap group fronted by drummer, Andrew Katz.
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13	!! Discography:
14	* ''1'' (2010)
15	* ''2'' (2010)
16	* ''3'' (2010)
17	* ''4'' (2010)
18	* ''Little Pieces of Paper With "No" Written On Them''[[note]]outtakes from the first four records[[/note]] (2011)
19	* ''My Back Is Killing Me Baby'' (2011)
20	* ''Twin Fantasy'' [[note]] subtitled ''Mirror to Mirror'' in 2018 [[/note]] (2011)
21	* ''Monomania'' (2012)
22	* ''Starving While Living''(2012)
23	* ''Nervous Young Man'' (2013)
24	* ''Disjecta Membra''[[note]]Another outtakes record, bundled with ''Nervous Young Man''[[/note]](2013)
25	* ''How To Leave Town'' (2014)
26	* ''Teens of Style'' (2015)
27	* ''Teens of Denial'' (2016)
28	* ''Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)'' (2018)
29	* ''Commit Yourself Completely'' [[note]]A live album from their 2018 tour[[/note]] (2019)
30	* ''Making a Door Less Open'' (2020)
31	* ''Faces From The Masquerade'' [[note]] live album[[/note]] (2023)
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35	!! The ocean washed over your tropes:
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37	* AlbumTitleDrop: From: "Father, Flesh in Rags:"
38	--> ''My back is killing me, baby\
39	I don't have any comfortable chairs''
40	* AlternateAlbumCover: The standard cover of ''Nervous Young Man'' features Will Toledo in the forefront, shirtless and wearing glasses with hearts drawn on them with a hand over his bleeding chest. The cover on Spotify is just the pictures on the wall behind him, Toledo completely absent.
41	* AmbiguouslyGay: Toledo is evasive about labels and his personal life, but many of the songs and entire albums are explicitly about relationships with men.
42	* AnimalMotif: Do you have something against dogs?
43	* AsTheGoodBookSays: The end of "Famous Prophets (Stars)" is a spoken word reading of 1 Corinthians 3-13.
44	* ArcWords: "The ocean washed over your grave" on ''Twin Fantasy.''
45	* BalladOfX: "The Ballad of Costa Concordia."
46	* BookEnds: The first song on ''Twin Fantasy'' is titled "My Boy (Twin Fantasy)" and the final song "Twin Fantasy (Those Boys)."
47	* CallBack: A common element in Toledo's songwriting. Several songs on ''Monomania'', for instance, quote ''Twin Fantasy,'' and the updated version of ''Twin Fantasy'' quotes ''Monomania'''s "Overexposed."
48	* ConceptAlbum: ''Twin Fantasy'', which is about a relationship Will Toledo was in at the time.
49	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A thinly veiled DoubleEntendre on "Beach Life-in-Death":
50	--> ''And when the train came it was so big and powerful, when it came into the little station\
51	I wanted to put my arms around it, but the conductor looked at me funny''
52	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few numbered albums by Car Seat Headrest, especially the first two, had more experimental song structures and stream of consciousness lyrics compared to the band’s output from ''My Back Is Killing Me Baby'' and onward. Tellingly, only two songs from this era (both from the third album) were rerecorded for ''Teens of Style'' whereas large portions of ''My Back Is Killing Me Baby'' and ''Monomania'' were rerecorded.
53	* EitherOrTitle: "Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales."
54	* EpicRocking: In spades!
55	** ''Twin Fantasy'' has "Beach Life in Death" at 12:11 and "Famous Prophets" at 10:21; the 2018 remake pushes them to 13:19 and ''16:10'', respectively.
56	** ''Monomania'' has the nine-minute "Souls" (which itself [[SiameseTwinSongs flows directly out of the six-minute "Los Borrachos"]]) and "Anchorite (Love You Very Much)," which runs just over fourteen minutes.
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58	** ''How to Leave Town'' (which Toledo has called an EP) starts with the fifteen-minute "The Ending of Dramamine" and ends with the ten-minute "Hey, Space Cadet! (Beast Monster Thing in Space)." Near the middle of the record are "America (Never Been)" and "I Want You to Know That I'm Awake/I Hope That You're Asleep," back-to-back at 7:16 and 8:44, respectively.
59	** Similarly, ''Teens of Denial'' pairs "Cosmic Hero" (8:32) with "The Ballad of the Costa Concordia" (11:31). "Vincent," the album's lead single, runs for seven minutes (though the music video version is heavily edited).
60	** ''Making a Door Less Open'' has "There Must Be More Than Blood" (7:33).
61	* IAmTheBand: In the band’s first few years, it consisted solely of Will Toledo, who performed all instruments in addition to vocals.
62	* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "[[Literature/APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan Portrait of the Artist as a Young]] Fag" "Beach [[XtremeKoolLetterz Fagz]]," and "Psst, Teenagers, Take Off Your Clo--."
63	* LimitedLyricsSong: "Stop Smoking (We Love You)"
64	--> ''Stop smoking\
65	We love you\
66	And we don't want you to die.''
67	* LiveAlbum: ''Commit Yourself Completely.''
68	* LongestSongGoesLast: Often avoided, but played straight with ''Monomania.''
69	* MotorMouth: The beginning of "Beach-Life-In-Death."
70	* OneManSong: "Vincent."
71	* SequelSong: "Beach Life-In-Death" is this to the series of songs on ''3'' that are all titled "beach [something]."
72	* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: A purposeful example on "(Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)."
73	* RearrangeTheSong: the entire point of ''Teens of Style'' and ''Twin Fantasy (Face to Face).''
74	** Also, the single edits of ''Teens of Denial'''s "Drunk Drivers" and "Unforgiving Girl" are vastly different from the album versions.
75	* SpokenWordInMusic: Will often dabbles on this for a good measure.
76	** ''Twin Fantasy'' consists of several instances of this but perhaps most prominently on "Nervous Young Inhumans."
77	--> ''This is the part of the song where I start to regret writing it.''

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