“With their highly-anticipated new album set to arrive in the coming months, Car Seat Headrest have now unveiled the next cut to be lifted from their forthcoming full-length.”
–Chris Bound on Mystic Sons, March 24, 2020
“The chorus of the track is dominated by gorgeous harmonies that we’ve come to expect from Car Seat Headrest, inter spliced with notably off-beat snare underneath a driving rhythm. Oh and there’s some trumpet for good measure!”
–Zanda Wilson on Music Feeds, March 24, 2020
“Car Seat Headrest Will Boost Your Mood With New Song ‘Martin'”
–Nina Corcoran on Consequence of Sound, March 23, 2020
“Martin is a joyful, jangly guitar-driven pop track from their upcoming album, ‘Making A Door Less Open,’ a collaboration between band leader Will Toledo and 1 Trait Danger, an electronic side project made up of Toledo and drummer Andrew Katz.”
–Jon Stickler on Stereoboard, March 23, 2020
“Car Seat Headrest Share Lyric Video for New Song ‘Martin'”
–Christopher Roberts on Under the Radar, March 23, 2020
“[Will Toledo] appears in the lyric video as his alter-ego Trait, washing the dishes — an appropriate activity during these pandemic times.”
–Claire Shaffer in Rolling Stone, March 23, 2020
“Songwriter Will Toledo declares the track one of the favorite songs he’s ever written.”
–Janice Headley on KEXP, March 23, 2020
“Toledo, the bandleader, is the computerised protagonist of the lyric video, washing dishes as his poignant words flash on the screen.”
–Jack Whatley on Far Out Magazine, March 23, 2020
“The song itself is a bouncy pop track that sounds a bit more realized than its predecessor, if not quite to the stadium-reaching peak of his recent pair of Teens LPs.”
–Mike LeSuer on FLOOD Magazine, March 23, 2020
“Bursting out of its seat with a startling assault of acoustic guitar, the track maintains 100 metre sprint pace before mellowing out in the final third, adding vibrant brass instrumentations that float along like butterfly wings.”
–Matty Pywell on Gigwise, March 23, 2020
“Accompanied by a lyric video that sees leader Will Toledo taking on the character ‘Trait,’ the uplifting pop song is described by Will as ‘one of the favorite songs that he’s ever written.'”
“The song is skittering and grounded by acoustic guitar and Toledo’s distinctive swallowed-up vocals.”
–James Rettig on Stereogum, March 23, 2020
“Car Seat Headrest have shared a new track from their forthcoming album Making a Door Less Open.”
–Matthew Strauss on Pitchfork, March 23, 2020
“For us — and other CSH fans, I’m sure — 1 Trait serves as an immediate mood picker-upper. “
–Angel Pleasant & Dominiki Kurz in The Wellesley News, March 5, 2020
