Car Seat Headrest today, shares single number four, ‘Fill In The Blank’ from his forthcoming record Teens of Denial out Friday 20 May via Matador Records / Remote Control Records.
Watch the lyric video for ‘Fill In The Blank’ here:
Teens of Denial is the thirteenth album in Car Seat Headrest’s (aka 23-year-old Will Toledo) oeuvre, second on Matador, and first to be recorded in a proper studio with a full band and producer (Steve Fisk).
On Denial, Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic-rock grandeur and huge (if detailed and personal) narrative ambitions, with nods to the Cars, Pavement and William Onyeabor. By turns tender and caustic, self-loathing and self-aggrandizing, he conjures a specifically 21st century mindset, a product of information overload, the loneliness it can foster, and the escape music can provide.
Over the course of Teens of Denial’s 11 songs, Will narrates a journey with his mysterious companion/alter-ego Joe that addresses big themes (personal responsibility, existential despair, the nature of identity) and small ones (Air Jordans, cops, whether to have one more beer).
‘Fill in The Blank,’ kicks things off — it’s a fist-pumping anthem about feeling lousy in an ill-defined way, the fear of settling into a routine of futility, and not wanting to deal with it. Although it’s oddly joyful sounding, Toledo considers it the introduction to his angriest record yet. In that vein, ‘Vincent,‘ ‘Hippie Powers,’ and ‘Connect The Dots’ are about both fighting to hold your place in the crowd and to hold your drink, as well as DIY college house shows, and having no one to dance with, respectively.
Car Seat Headrest – Teens Of Denial is out Friday 20 May via Matador Records / Remote Control Records.
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