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JUST LISTEN: Car Seat Headrest “Nervous Young Inhumans”
The Deets:
Who: Car Seat Headrest
Song: “Nervous Young Inhumans”
Appears On: “Nervous Young Inhumans” appears on Will Toledo’s 2011’s Bandcamp release, ‘Twin Fantasy’, which has been re-recorded and re-imagined for release on February 16th via Matador Records.
Current Location: Seattle via Virginia
Info:“It was never a finished work,” Toledo says, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” He has, now, the benefit of a bigger budget, a full band in fine form, and endless time to tinker. According to him, it took eight months of mixing just to get the drums right. But this is no shallow second take, sanitized in studio and scrubbed of feeling. This is the album he always wanted to make. It sounds the way he always wanted it to sound.
It’s been hard, stepping into the shoes of his teenage self, walking back to painful places. There are lyrics he wouldn’t write again, an especially sad song he regards as an albatross. But even as he carries the weight of that younger, wounded Toledo, he moves forward. He grows. He revises, gently, the songs we love so much. In the album’s final moments, in those “apologies to future me’s and you’s,” there is more forgiveness than fury.
This, Toledo says, is the most vital difference between the old and the new: he no longer sees his own story as a tragedy.
Comments: Will Toldeo has always had the unique ability to make you feel every moment of despair, hope, and youthful joy through not only his lyrics but also the manic journeys he takes you on musically. The reimagined “Nervous Young Inhumans” is a sprawling, fuzz-laden, soaring anthem that finds Toledo at his most desperate.
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Check out photos by Mike Gerry of Car Seat Headrest playing Shaky Knees 2017 and Terminal West in Atlanta from 2016:
