The Scholars, by Car Seat Headrest

The Scholars

by Car Seat Headrest

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Frances Tsounis raw, honest, and bridging language gaps Favorite track: Equals.

Drenochrome the way that Will Toledo and the Gay Brigade do this shit blows my mind, just patterns becoming perfect music Favorite track: Gethsemane.

frozentanukii This album is good. Just... really good. Like, *really* good. This is one of the best albums that I've ever listened to by proxy of just being very good, and being incredibly consistent with it. There isn't a moment on the record that isn't "good", and that's brilliant. Favorite track: The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man).

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1.	CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You) 08:11	info
2.	Devereaux 04:30	info
3.	Lady Gay Approximately 03:47	info
4.	The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man) 05:28	info
5.	Equals 04:11	info
6.	Gethsemane 10:51	info	buy track
7.	Reality 11:13	info
8.	Planet Desperation 18:52	info
9.	True/False Lover 03:28	info

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The first studio album from Car Seat Headrest in five years, ‘The Scholars.’

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. And so this is sort of a middle ground where each song can be a character and it’s like each one is coming out on center stage and they have their song and dance.”

While Car Seat Headrest started as Toledo’s solo project, the four-piece is now fully a band. “What we’ve been doing more of in recent years is just taking the pulses of each other.” says Toledo. “It didn’t really feel to me like things got in sync in an inner feeling way until this record, with that internal communal energy. And it’s become that band feeling for me in a much more realized way. That’s been a big journey.”

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 of ‘The Scholars.’

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released May 2, 2025

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