There are lots of good riffs and melodies interspersed, but the lyrics try too hard to be clever and the songs are so long that I've had trouble connecting with this record.
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 August 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
Everything I've heard from this has been really lumpy and midpaced and lacking in character.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 August 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
Am I hearing the same record as you guys? I'm mildly confused.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 25 August 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
I LOVE the band name but found his last record unbearably dull and uninspired. Gonna give this new record a go and report back.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 25 August 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
friend of mine in medical school played bass on and toured for "teens of style" -- i really dug their big single, "something soon". will give this one a listen
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
this is definitely a big step up from Teens of Style, the songs really benefit from recording in a studio as a band and it's much more dynamic and better arranged
he'd really outgrown the home recording by Teens of Style, which tried to improve in sound quality over earlier albums but ended up in an ugly in-between
― ufo, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
I LOVE the band name
really?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 26 August 2016 00:58 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i think it's great. really bored by the record though
― flappy bird, Friday, 26 August 2016 02:15 (seven years ago) link
the music's pretty good, I just don't find his voice compelling at all
― geoffreyess, Friday, 26 August 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
parquet courts are working in a similar sort of bland indie rock revivalism, but at least they've got some riffs and a handful of sick songs. better artwork and attitude, too. i don't find anything about this Car Seat Headrest record compelling at all.
― flappy bird, Friday, 26 August 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
responsible for the most banal and depressing "What's In My Bag" of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLGVGvO1YeE
― Wimmels, Friday, 26 August 2016 10:02 (seven years ago) link
Thread needs more car seat headrests, imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZTa8Nh0VlE
― how's life, Friday, 26 August 2016 12:36 (seven years ago) link
xp Yeah I saw that What's in My Bag! Made me wait another two months to actually listen to the record. My girlfriend and I have a joke about everyone saying "I like Twin Peaks but I haven't finished it yet," also the thing about the Kurt Cobain record is so lame.
― flappy bird, Friday, 26 August 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
this kid's brilliant
― Treeship, Saturday, 29 October 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
drunk drivers/killer whales is the best one, i think. "killer whales" are a pretty potent metaphor for entrapment, sort of surprising, maybe a bit on the nose but this is indie rock
― Treeship, Saturday, 29 October 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Will played with Jandek here in LA a couple months back. Was encouraged to check this out afterwards but am still pretty meh on the songs.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 October 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
god, that What's In My Bag *is* super lame. if you like this band and/or his songs, don't watch it, it could ruin him for you.
― alpine static, Sunday, 30 October 2016 07:38 (seven years ago) link
I thought this was just a joke band based on this one "which black metal band's logo is this?" picture:
http://i.imgur.com/NBF4paF.png
― StanM, Sunday, 30 October 2016 07:44 (seven years ago) link
i actually like the band name, it (combined with seeing, i think it was Whiney, roaring about it on twitter) definitely contributed to my intrigue. completely banal over-familiar object but you rarely every say "car seat headrest" so it somehow comes out sounding fresh(???)
based on Teens of Denial, they're not a great band yet but there's some promise imo. i love the power-pop punches in the chorus of 'fill in the blank' (you have no *right* to be depreeessed, you haven't tried hard enough to like it), and u gotta admit there is something about the timbre of his voice
― flopson, Friday, 2 December 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
I'm listening with malevolent intent
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
Dear god this is so shit and there's 67 minutes left
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
it's a fantastic band name, but the guy is a nubbin and his music blows. this thing made me want to open my veins: http://pitchfork.com/news/70175-car-seat-headrest-reviews-kanyes-repulsive-beautiful-life-of-pablo/
It’s also one of the best albums I’ve heard in a long time — and one of the most beautiful. It’s very strange. My younger self would never have tolerated an album this reprehensible, this unrepentantly egotistical, yet I’ve probably listened to it more times this year than anything, aside from David Bowie’s Blackstar. Why? Well, it’s just good.
fuck off
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
just good music
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
he's like 19 years old, right?
― flopson, Friday, 2 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
oh here's an eight minute song. we all needed this
age is just a number man
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
i just mean, i'm glad no one was putting 19 year old me's ilx posts on p4k
― flopson, Friday, 2 December 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
oh totally. i posted the most colossal amount of shit when i was nineteen (and thereafter) as you're all aware, but the fittingly hardline response has meant that my idiot quotient is nowadays limited mostly to irascible liveblogs of indie rock. in a similar way i hope car seat headrest guy reads my posts and maybe changes how he makes music, or even gives up entirely
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
'destroyed by hippie powers' is ok though i guess
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
oh god
he's 24
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 December 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
i hate this record. once in a while it's pretty decent power pop but the songs are endless
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
I'm on the same boat... no sound dynamics at all... some good moments but no fun at all to be had.
― Moka, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
this............isn't bad
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
wtf
good band name, absolutely loathe what i've heard
― splendor in the ASS (rip van wanko), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
the opening track was trite and melodically non-existent, the second track almost got a good groove going but faltered and forgot to go anywhere. since then there has generally been decent quality music. definitely turned from a hate-listen into something else, not sure what though
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
feels like this year's The Monitor (right down to an epic track equating emotional upheaval to a famous nautical event), and of comparable quality too
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
Cmon now this is not anywhere near the quality of The Monitor... but yeah I liked this well enough when I came across it earlier this year. Knocking round with 20-something North American blink-182 survivors recently sent me scrabbling around for potential common ground and this was pretty much the best we came up with. I liked the lyric about there being a Van Gogh picture on the wikipedia page for clinical depression because I checked it out and right enough, there is. Could do to be ruthlessly trimmed down though. I like these sorts of albums 12 songs long (tick) but leave your cup in the sink and be out the back door within 32 minutes or so, this one still has it's feet up on my coffee table smoking all my cigarettes and ignoring my subtle hints to leave. 70mins... oh you had a shit time at college? Get tae fuck, I got grownup matters to attend to... like factchecking your shitty lyrics, yeah I know, I'm pathetic.tbf The Monitor also suffered from this, yeah I don't think your breakup was QUITE on the scale of the American civil war OH IS THAT THE TIME? but I preferred their brand of overemoting for some reason. Maybe beard- and Springsteen- and alcohol-related reasons. Prolly just alcohol-related actually.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
iirc he was a /mu/ poster so his early championing came from there and i imagine some of his popularity comes from the ONE OF US mentality
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:53 (seven years ago) link
i should like this stuff in theory but i just never really understood what he was trying to accomplish. it's like an indie rock equivalent of someone translating a book from english to french and then 100 years later someone else translating it back into english.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 3 December 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
.....oh
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
lol yeah that explains things way better than the cult backstory
I do like a couple songs on this tbh
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:22 (seven years ago) link
the single version of "drunk drivers" released today is terrible. it loses all the charm and power of the album version.
― Treeship, Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link
i agree with flopson, basically, about how this band is interesting mostly because they show a lot of potential.
i also get call all destroyer's complaint that these songs do seem like weird re-imaginings of not so long dead indie tropes that no one asked for and that feel much less natural than their source material. i kind of like this friction though. the album feels sealed off from the rest of 2016, like it's some album from 2004 that i missed somehow.
― Treeship, Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:55 (seven years ago) link
it's like an indie rock equivalent of someone translating a book from english to french and then 100 years later someone else translating it back into English-speaking.
Actually if there was an actual indie rock album of this I would be well into it, that sounds awesome.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:58 (seven years ago) link
that was Blueberry Boat iirc
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:11 (seven years ago) link
i like the part where he takes acid and jesus shows up and calls him the "scum of the earth" after singing "ooooooooooooooooooooh"
― Treeship, Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:12 (seven years ago) link
the songs are endless
True. And also why I disliked the War on Drugs album everyone shat themselves over.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link
that one i at least get that "red eyes" song or whatever, that's a jam
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:53 (seven years ago) link
i don't think this is necessarily "more of the same" indie nonsense, it's clearly got some sense of ambition, i just think that ambition actively detracts from the songcraft, which is merely ok
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, December 8, 2016 5:11 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is doubly true of the twin fantasy remake that just came out
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 16 February 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
it's so so bloated! the original was long enough at an hour and then he added another 11 minutes onto it
― ufo, Friday, 16 February 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Only on my first listen but I can't tell if this record is amazing or an overindulgent mess. There are great moments in it and I like its "this-record-will-save-your-teenage-self"'s level of ambition, but aahhhh I just wish he'd write a strong, simple hook - something that so many other bands can do with songs that aren't 12 minutes long. It's a good record and I understand it's appeal, but it's emotional weight doesn't always translate into greatness. Also that "I am a good person" monologue is cringeworthy as hell
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 18 February 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
someone should edit his stuff down and put it on Bandcamp like that one dude did with JT's 20/20 Experience
― alpine static, Sunday, 18 February 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
i...quite like this
whyyy
― imago, Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:18 (five years ago) link
like, much more than TOD which imo wasn't very good
― imago, Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
super into twin fantasy, "Body's" in particular.
― campreverb, Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
Skimming thru this thread, I'm surprised at the reactions to "ToD"... I thought that album was absolutely terrific -- big, ambitious, funny, anthemic, audacious, self-effacing; great/quotable lyrics ("I felt like a walking piece of shit / In a stupid-looking jacket"; "The effects are so good these days / If there were gears behind those big brown eyes, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference"); hot production, super rockin', "1937 State Park" blasting at full volume; really "going for it," not afraid to be corny or "mainstream"; communicating "big ideas" through crowd-pleasing rock 'n roll in a way that very popular rock artists did in decades past but seems to have fallen out of favor recently (...I'm aware I may be setting myself up with that last one).
The fact that it sounds "like '90s indie rock" seemed incidental to how great it was -- though I admit that I love '90s indie rock, and that very well may have helped!
I also dug the "Twin Fantasy" redo, but have only listened to it a few times....
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 7 June 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
That chorus on '1937 State Park' pulls off the very rare vulnerable/anthemic and blows me away every time.
― campreverb, Thursday, 7 June 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
that's the one song i like off tod, i appreciate the inward digging his stuff aims for but that track besides it feels mostly like inward trudging
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 7 June 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
is there a new album
― flopson, Friday, 8 June 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
Another lyric I love:I’ve been waiting all my lifeI’ve been waiting for some real good pornSomething with meaning, something fulfillingI’d like to make my shame count for somethingI feel like there’s something (half-)ironic, or subtly tongue-in-cheek, about the pathos on this album — a gentle, straight-faced mocking of his own drama — which elevates the proceedings, and is part of why the lyrics are so great. I guess Lou Barlow presents a rough precedent for this kind of “dry self-awareness about the singer’s own melodrama.”By contrast, the lyrics of Twin Fantasy are more straight-up emo (Will was actually a teen when he wrote them, no?) — but still very good!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 9 June 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link
(One thing to add is that I’m not usually much of a “lyrics guy” — but Will Headrest’s lyrics are so good, I find myself really aware of & focusing on them.)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 9 June 2018 06:39 (five years ago) link
there's an eye for detail that reminds me a lot of Courtney Barnett actually. In the 'I did not transcend, I felt like a walking piece of shit in a stupid looking jacket' the jacket lyric so perfectly captures the feeling of alienation.
― campreverb, Saturday, 9 June 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
...and she’s my other current rock fave!!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 9 June 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
The "new" one is a great record, IMO... it and the new Parquet Courts have been enough to scratch any "indie rock" itches this year.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
while this is good, what you just wrote is hideously incurious and lazy
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
also fuck parquet courts
Yeah, but I don't give a fuck what you think.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
you're such a dull cunt
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
Also, the new Arctic Monkeys album is one of their finest yet - it's been a decent year for this kind of stuff.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
'this kind of stuff' - would you seriously call the CSH album the same 'kind of stuff' as the AM album ffs
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
No, but I'd call you a dull cunt.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
GOAL TURRICAN (Turrican)
Turrican 1 - 1 imago
The Northerner responds just a minute later, in identical fashion - a scrappy equaliser, but they all c(o)unt!
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
Like, keep hinging your entire existence in presenting to the internet how esoteric you think your tastes are in order to draw attention to yourself in some sort of "please love and respect me" exercise and perhaps one day - you can only hope - some poor deluded fucker will ram their tongue straight up your shitpipe.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
Buoyed by the goal, Turrican knocks it around confidently in midfield. The crowd have started to find their voice!
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
^ Imagospeak for "Look at me, internet people! Please tongue my shitpipe. Anybody!"
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
It's starting to get a bit repetitive and momentum has been lost. The crowd starts to drift out, unsatisfied
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
^ Your lasses glittering review of your bedroom technique.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
omg just make out already
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
Those Boys
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
Anyway, while I can't help but wonder what happened in his life that he ended up like this in the first place, I wish LJ well in his quest to convince the entire internet to kiss his arse, I really do.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
(Not holding my breath, though.)
I <3 a good Britfight
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link