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/Rhythmethod. 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 alternate
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.
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.MAKING A DOOR LESS OPEN
Vinyl Tracklist:
1. Weightlifters
2. Can’t Cool Me Down
3. Hollywood
4. There Must Be More Than Blood
5. Hymn
6. 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 Blood
7. Deadlines
8. What’s With You Lately
9. Life Worth Missing
10. Famous
11. Deadlines (Alternate Acoustic) [Bonus Track]
12. Hollywood (Acoustic) [Bonus Track]Car Seat Headrest