Car Seat Headrest by Carlos Cruz
Car Seat Headrest have launched their new album Making A Door Less Open with its lead single Can’t Cool Me Down.
The album is due via Matador Records on May 1st, their first brand new record since 2016’s Teens Of Denial, and more immediately following the 2018 re-recording of Twin Fantasy which Live4ever named as one of our favourites of that year:
“It’s surprising to learn how much effort and time went into the album as it sounds impressively lo-fi and ramshackle, as well as being full of spirit,” our review reads.
“Toledo doesn’t have the strongest singing voice (at one stage he even pleads to have Frank Ocean’s), and at points you could be forgiven for thinking that you were listening to The Strokes, so much does he sound like Julian Casablancas, this especially true on Cute Thing, where the guitar and drums collide gloriously over his East Coast drawl.”
“Indeed, the album could only have been made in America; at some points it oozes Ryan Adams’ melancholic drama, at others the Smashing Pumpkins’ theatrical desperation.”