Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (2011/February 16, 2018) • Page 2

Right you are. From the webstore:

Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you’ll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” - thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it.

On February 16th, on the heels of the smashing success of Teens of Denial, Car Seat Headrest will release a new version of Twin Fantasy. “It was never a finished work,” Will says, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” He has, now, the benefit of a bigger budget, a full band in fine form, and endless time to tinker. According to him, it took eight months of mixing just to get the drums right. But this is no shallow second take, sanitized in studio and scrubbed of feeling. This is the album he always wanted to make. It sounds the way he always wanted it to sound.

It’s been hard, stepping into the shoes of his teenage self, walking back to painful places. There are lyrics he wouldn’t write again, an especially sad song he regards as an albatross. But even as he carries the weight of that younger, wounded Will, he moves forward. He grows. He revises, gently, the songs we love so much. In the album’s final moments, in those apologies to future me’s and you’s, there is more forgiveness than fury.

This, Will says, is the most vital difference between the old and the new: he no longer sees his own story as a tragedy.

 

will is going off on twitter

thread ^ with some choice cuts below

 

This is really interesting. Will is p tight lipped about personal stuff in his music in general, but like. If some of the stuff in his music actually happened, why wouldn't he be? And this connects with that larger conversation of invasive interviewers, esp irt women performers. Weird that interviewers think an artist *has* to put their personal life on blast, whether or not that means rehashing personal traumas

 

Love the way he wraps up the stream of posts with, "anyways. buy my gay ass record."
I know it's crass, but that made me chuckle hard.

 

this song is great. I can't wait for this.

 

Yes, I’m really enjoying all tracks thus far. Is Beach Life-In-Death going to be on this or not?

 

Yeah track 2.

 

yeah, it was on th original so of course haha

 

I just wanna hear the new bodys and sober to death

 

drip

 

End leaks 2018

 

Yea, call me old fashioned, but I'm just gonna pick this up on Friday at my record store.

 

I pre ordered it but decided to listen. It’s great.

(I only listened to the original one time)

 

this forum's attitude towards hearing things before arbitrary dates set by labels that generally hold artist's music captive lately is very fuckin weird

stoked to hit play

 

ehhhhhh it's become laziness for me, i don't care if people listen early but like, unless i'm super anticipating something i'd rather just like, add it to apple music day of lol

also there's a big difference between rooting for leaks/active leakers as opposed to someone casually downloading something they see

 

I wouldn't say I am rooting for leaks, but from everything I understand the artist almost never cares and wants to get shit out there and it's the label preventing/delaying/publicizing that calls the shots, I don't think it really has a lot to do with the person/people that made the record. I don't have data so I download everything, nothing wrong with waiting for a release date but coming at the situation with some sort of moral superiority as if the fraction of a penny they get from a Spotify stream makes someone a better person than someone who clicks a zippy link is real lame imo

 

I’ve been listening to the original and the new one for the past three or four days, kind of obsessively. Some of the changes irk me: the end of “Beach Life-in-Death” is one of my favorite parts on the original album, and I’m not sure I like what he did with “Nervous Young Inhumans.” But when it hits, it REALLY hits. “Famous Prophets” is just glorious, and “Bodys” really benefits from the upgrade.

 

just an fyi if that's the reason that's holding you back from streaming (as opposed to money and the access to leaks you do have), i never stream on data, i add things and then download them all to my phone. it's easy

not trying to convince you to stream i'm just giving you the info haha. it's just so easy

 

yeah I really need to get on the offline tip, I also just obsessively organize my iTunes collection lol

 

I kind of thought streaming was silly until I signed up for Apple Music and it has made checking out new stuff so insanely easy. The fact that I never have to go digging for some release has changed the way I listen to music and my willingness to check stuff out.

 

I'm not at all opposed to the idea of streaming, but since I found Soulseek I haven't had to dig for a single thing haha

 

yup, that was me too. especially in the what.cd days, why would i need to stream when downloading was so easy and my music was organized perfectly! then i tried it and it's just the easiest damn thing.

 

The biggest thing that drew me was being able to easily access pre-release singles without having to rip it from soundcloud or youtube tbh