New Car Seat Headrest new single ‘Martin’
CAR SEAT HEADREST DEBUT NEW SINGLE ‘MARTIN’
NEW ALBUM MAKING A DOOR LESS OPEN
OUT MAY 1 ON MATADOR
TOUR NORTH AMERICA THIS SUMMER
Car Seat Headrest share a new song, ‘Martin’, today—listen and watch the lyric video HERE, in which bandleader Will Toledo assumes the character of ‘Trait’. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming new album Making A Door Less Open, set for release May 1 on Matador Records. Described by Toledo as “one of the favourite songs that he’s ever written”, ‘Martin’ is a soaring and majestic ode of life-affirming pop. Created over the course of four years, Making a Door Less Open is Car Seat Headrest’s first set of brand new songs since 2016’s Teens Of Denial. The album, the result of a fruitful “collaboration” between Car Seat Headrest and 1 Trait Danger, a CSH electronic side project consisting of drummer Andrew Katz and Toledo’s alternate persona, ‘Trait’, sees Toledo embarking on new and imaginative roads to songwriting and recording, placing emphasis on the individual songs, each with its own “special energy”, resulting his most dynamic and open-ended work to date. In addition, the album will be available in three distinct versions for digital, vinyl and CD.
Read a statement from Toledo, as Trait, HERE. ‘Martin’ follows the first track released from the album, ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’, which The Guardian described as “a hard left into a new sound (…) drum machines, synths and bass arranged in a broad space around Will Toledo’s hungover croak”, and MOJO called “unexpectedly groovy robo-pop”, while the i surmised, “this first single hints that they are heading in a new, electronic direction”.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.Artwork
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Artwork by Cate Wurtz
MAKING A DOOR LESS OPENVinyl Tracklist
1. Weightlifters
2. Can’t Cool Me Down
3. Hollywood
4. There Must Be More Than Blood
5. Hymn6. Deadlines
7. Martin
8. What’s With You Lately
9. Life Worth Missing
10. Famous
CD Tracklist
1. Weightlifters
2. Can’t Cool Me Down
3. Hollywood
4. Martin
5. Hymn (Remix)
6. There Must Be More Than Bloo
d7. Deadlines
8. What’s With You Lately
9. Life Worth Missing
10. Famous
11. Deadlines (Alternate Acoustic)
[Bonus Track]12. Hollywood (Acoustic)
[Bonus Track]
Digital Tracklist:TBD
CAR SEAT HEADREST LIVE
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 OgdenSeptember 4 – North Adams, MA – MASS MoCA
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