Car Seat Headrest – The Scholars (New Vinyl)

An Indie Rock Opera on Double LP!
Their First Studio Album in 5 Years and 1st as a full 4-piece band!

From Shakespeare to Mozart to classical opera, Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo pulled from the classics when devising the lyrics and story arc of The Scholars, while the music draws, carefully, from classic rock story song cycles such as The Who’s ‘Tommy’ and David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust.’ “One thing that can be a struggle with rock operas is that the individual songs kind of get sacrificed for the flow of the plot,” Toledo notes. “I didn’t want to sacrifice that to make a very fluid narrative…”

While The Scholars has some of the most expansive Car Seat Headrest songs to date, including the nearly 19-minute long “Planet Desperation”, and opener “CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)”, they know how to make each part of the journey compelling, filling the runtimes with unexpected turns and enervating hooks. It is a journey that listeners will want to embark on again and again as they absorb and discover the rich depths and clanging resonances. The Scholars arrives on Imported Gatefold Black Double-LP Vinyl, which includes a 28-page booklet featuring art/lyrics.

Tracklist:

1. CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)
2. Devereaux
3. Lady Gay Approximately
4. The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)
5. Equals
6. Gethsemane
7. Reality
8. Planet Desperation
9. True/False Love