New Car Seat Headrest – New Album + Single ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’
CAR SEAT HEADREST CONFIRM NEW ALBUM
OUT MAY 1 ON MATADOR
FIRST SINGLE ‘CAN’T COOL ME DOWN’
DEBUTS TODAY
ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICA TOUR DATES THIS SUMMER
Photo credit: Carlos Cruz
Making A Door Less Open, the new album from Car Seat Headrest and the first set of brand-new songs since 2016’s Teens Of Denial, is set for release May 1 on Matador Records. Today, the band shares ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’, a staple of their live sets over the past year, from the forthcoming album, and its accompanying video—watch/listen HERE.
Created over the course of four years, Making a Door Less Open is the result of a fruitful “collaboration” between Car Seat Headrest, led by Will Toledo, and 1 Trait Danger, a CSH electronic side project consisting of drummer Andrew Katz and Toledo’s alternative persona, “Trait.” To realize this, the band recorded the album twice: once live with guitars, drums and bass, and once in a MIDI environment using purely synthesized sounds. During the mixing process, the two approaches were gradually combined using elements of each, with additional overdubs. In this way, Making A Door Less Open sees Toledo embarking on new and imaginative roads to songwriting and recording, placing emphasis on the individual songs, each with its own “special energy,” rather than attempting to draw a coherent storyteller narrative through the album as he has in the past, resulting in his most dynamic and open-ended work to date. Read a statement from Toledo, as Trait, HERE.
Car Seat Headrest will embark on a North American tour this summer, including three nights at New York’s Brooklyn Steel and stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington, D.C. Please see full routing below and visit carseatheadrest.com for more information. Comprised of Will Toledo, Andrew Katz (drums), Ethan Ives (guitar) and Seth Dalby (bass), Car Seat Headrest has either released 11 or three albums to date, depending on the way you look at it. A prolific songwriter, Toledo took his moniker from making early recordings in the private environment of his family’s car, releasing a dozen self-recorded and produced albums on Bandcamp and building a tight-knit following.
Toledo has since gone from an empty five-seater to selling out tours and filling festival main stages. 2015’s Teens of Style was a collection of songs from his early years. The band’s proper Matador debut, Teens of Denial, followed in 2016 and catapulted them to overnight commercial success and widespread critical acclaim, as well as highlighting Toledo as a prodigious lyricist. 2018’s Twin Fantasy, an epic re-imagination of an album originally released in 2011, demonstrated newfound scale, depth and ambition. Preorder physical formats, with distinct mixes for digital, CD and vinyl, here.
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MAKING A DOOR LESS OPENVinyl Tracklist
1. Weightlifters2. Can’t Cool Me Down3. Hollywood4. There Must Be More Than Blood5. Hymn6. Deadlines7. Martin8. What’s With You Lately9. Life Worth Missing10. Famous
CD Tracklist:1. Weightlifters2. Can’t Cool Me Down3. Hollywood4. Martin5. Hymn (Remix)6. There Must Be More Than Blood7. Deadlines8. What’s With You Lately9. Life Worth Missing10. Famous11. Deadlines (Alternate Acoustic) [Bonus Track]12. Hollywood (Acoustic) [Bonus Track]
Digital Tracklist:TBD
CAR SEAT HEADREST LIVE
April 25 – North Adams, MA – MASS MoCA (preview performance)May 27—St. Paul, MN—Palace TheatreMay 28—Milwaukee, WI—Pabst TheatreMay 29—Chicago, IL—The VicMay 30—Chicago, IL—The VicJune 2—Detroit, MI—The MajesticJune 3—Toronto, ON—DanforthJune 4—Toronto, ON—DanforthJune 6—Boston, MA—House of BluesJune 7—Portland, ME—State TheatreJune 9—New York, NY—Brooklyn SteelJune 10—New York, NY—Brooklyn SteelJune 11—New York, NY—Brooklyn SteelJune 13—Philadelphia, PA—Franklin Music HallJune 14—Washington, D.C.—AnthemJune 16—Raleigh, NC—The RitzJune 17—Asheville, NC—Orange PeelJune 18—Columbia, SC—The SenateJune 19—Atlanta, GA—TabernacleJune 20 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn BowlJuly 9—Vancouver, BC—The CommodoreJuly 10—Vancouver, BC—The CommodoreJuly 11 —Seattle, WA—ParamountJuly 12—Portland, OR—RoselandJuly 14—San Francisco, CA—The WarfieldJuly 17—San Diego, CA—Observatory North ParkJuly 18—Los Angeles, CA—The WilternJuly 19—Phoenix, AZ—Van BurenJuly 22—Austin, TX—Stubb’sJuly 23—Houston, TX—White OakJuly 24—Dallax, TX—GranadaJuly 25—Oklahoma City, OK—The TowerJuly 26—Kansas City, KS—The CrossroadsJuly 28—Denver, CO—The Ogden
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