History Music / CarSeatHeadrest

Car Seat Headrest is an IndieRock band from Seattle, Washington, led by Will Toledo. The band incorporates influences from '90s AlternativeRock, Lo-Fi, {{Emo}} and (occasionally) SynthPop bands.

** ''How to Leave Town'' (which Toledo has called an EP) starts with the fifteen-minute "The Ending of Drammamine" 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.

** Perhaps most prominently on "Nervous Young Inhumans."

* SpokenWordInMusic: Will often dabbles on this sometimes.

* SpokenWordInMusic: Perhaps most prominently on "Nervous Young Inhumans."

* ''Little Pieces of Paper With "No" Written On Them''[[note]]outtakes from the first five records[[/note]] (2011)

** ''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 ''16:21'', respectively.

!! Car Seat Headrest's Music Provides examples of:

* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "[[Literature/APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoung Man Portrait of the Artist as a Young]] Fag" "Beach [[XtremeKoolLetterz Fagz]]," and "Psst, Teenagers, Take Off Your Clo--."

Car Seat Headrest is an IndieRock band from Seattle, Washington, led by Will Toledo. The band incorporates influences from '90s AlternativeRock, {{Lo-Fi}}, {{Emo}} and (occasionally) SynthPop bands.

Toledo began the Car Seat Headrest project in 2010, releasing four different albums all in one year via Bandcamp. In 2011 he relased 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.

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 EthanIves, and bassist Seth Dalby to round out the band in the studio and onstage.

* LimitedLyricsSong: "Stop Smoking (We Love You)"

! Car Seat Headrest's Music Provides examples of:

-> ''My back is killing me, baby\\

-> ''And when the train came it was so big and powerful, when it came into the little station\\

-> ''Stop smoking\\

* LongestSongGoesLast: often flagrantly avoided, but played straight with ''Monomania.''

* TextlessAlbumCover: Most of them, barring ''Teens of Style'' and ''Teens of Denial.''
* TheBalladOfX: "The Ballad of Costa Concordia."

-> This is the part of the song where I start to regret writing it.

! Discography:

* AsTheGoodBookSays: The end of "Famous Prophets (Stars)" is a spoken word reading of 1 Corinthians 3-13.

-> My back is killing me, baby
-> I don't have any comfortable chairs

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A thinly veiled metaphor on "Beach Life-in-Death":
-> And when the train came it was so big and powerful, when it came into the little station
-> I wanted to put my arms around it, but the conductor looked at me funny

-> Stop smoking
-> We love you
-> And we don't want you to die.

* MotorMouth: the beginning of "Beach-Life-In-Death."

-> My back Is killing me, baby

Toledo began the Car Seat Headrest project in 2010, releasing four different albums all in one year via Bandcamp. In 2011 he relased 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.

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.

* Concept Album: ''Twin Fantasy'', which is about a relationship Will Toledo was in at the time.

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 a losing 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 EthanIves, and bassist Seth Dalby to round out the band in the studio and onstage.

* LiveAlbum: "Commit Yourself Completely."

* ''Disjecta Membra''[[note]]another outtakes record, bundled with ''Nervous Young Man''[[/note]](2013)

* ''Commit Yourself Completely''(2019)
* ''Making a Door Less Open''(2020)

Toledo began the Car Seat Headrest project in 2010, releasing four different albums all in one year via Bandcamp. In 2011 he relased 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--[[EpicRockinglong, sprawling, multi-part songs]], heavily distorted guitar parts, and densely packed, [[SmallReferencePools sometimes obscure]] [[{{ShoutOut}} references]] to other works of art and literature.

** ''How to Leave Town'' (which Toledo has called an EP) starts with the fifteen-minute "The Ending of Drammamine" and ends with the ten-minute "Hey, Sapce 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.

* ''Making a Door Less Open''(2019)

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