“This is an instant indie-rock classic.”<\/p>\n
–Allan Raible on ABC News<\/em>, Dec. 30, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…one of the most critically acclaimed indie albums of the decade.”<\/p>\n —CEG<\/em>, December 27, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “As a wordsmith and ideas man, Toledo is up there with a clutch of maverick geniuses…”<\/p>\n –Tony Hardy on BestNewBands.com<\/em>, Dec. 24, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Car Seat Headrest\u2019s Talking Heads Cover \u2018This Must Be The Place\u2019 Is The Best Cover You\u2019ll Hear This Year”<\/p>\n –Caitlin White on Uproxxx<\/em>, Dec. 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “The Will Toledo-led band covers a lot of different tracks during their sets, and at their homecoming gig at The Neptune last month, they covered the Talking Heads\u2019 Speaking In Tongues<\/em> track ‘This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)’ with the help of their opening band.<\/p>\n –James Rettig on Stereogum<\/em>, Dec. 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…there really is something jubilant about how Will Toledo takes that Pavement style of indie slop to such anthemic levels here.”<\/p>\n –Rob Sheffield in Rolling Stone<\/em>, Dec. 21, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Teens<\/em>\u00a0is a voice-cracking classic.”<\/p>\n –Abram Scharf on Creative Loafing <\/em>(Tampa Bay), Dec. 21, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Through changes of pace and intelligent, introspective lyrics, <\/i>Car Seat Headrest\u00a0have created a work of raw depth and beauty.”<\/p>\n —GIGsoup<\/em>, Dec. 21, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “The song simultaneously inspires feelings of dread and hope.”<\/p>\n –Darryl G. Wright re” “Fill in the Blank” on Spectrum Culture<\/em>, Dec. 20, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Car Seat Headrest\u2019s ‘Drunk Drivers \/Killer Whales’ is an alt rock masterpiece and the linchpin of Teens of Denial<\/em>, one of the year\u2019s best albums.”<\/p>\n –Grant Ridnor\u00a0on Spectrum Culture<\/em>, Dec. 20, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “These songs rock with a fuzzy-yet-clear intensity; they retain their DIY spirit, but the focus is sharper, as are the hooks, even when songs stretch past the seven-minute mark.”<\/p>\n –Steve Klinge in Magnet<\/em>, Dec. 19, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Teens of Denial<\/em> takes the verbosity of\u00a0artists like Jonathan Richman and Okkervil River\u2019s Will Sheff and combines it with a classic rock-sized sound to create one of the most enthralling records of 2016.”<\/p>\n –Terence Praet in The Manuel<\/em>, Dec. 19, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Teens of Denial<\/em> is a complex, smart, catchy record with some of the year\u2019s best tracks on it.”<\/p>\n –Rich in The Revue<\/em>, Dec. 19, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Utilizing the classic quiet-loud-quiet structure, ‘Cosmic Hero’ plays with emotions more than it has any right to.”<\/p>\n —Dozens of Donuts<\/em>, Dec. 19, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n –“‘Destroyed By Hippie Power’ rocked, revitalizing Indie Rock in one fell swoop.”<\/p>\n —Dozens of Donuts<\/em>, Dec. 19, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “While the entirety of Teens Of Denial<\/i> could be seen as a magnificent journey through an adolescents growing fears, ‘The Ballad Of The Costa Concordia’ organically put it in one paranoid package.”<\/p>\n —Dozens of Donuts<\/em>, Dec. 19, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…my favourite album and one to buy all your favourite people this Christmas is \u2018Teens of Denial\u2019 by my current favourite band Car Seat Headrest.”<\/p>\n —The Only Indie Boy in Old York<\/em>, Dec. 18, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…packed with great songs combining anthemic song hooks and shout-along choruses with smartly crafted lyrics of alienation, depression and survival.”<\/p>\n —KEXP<\/em> (Seattle) re: Teens of Denial<\/em>, Dec. 16, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “As Teens of Denial<\/i> presents Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo) in a full-band setting following a string of Bandcamp albums, it\u2019s hardly the sound of bending to convention.”<\/p>\n –Hays Davis on Under the Radar<\/em>, Dec. 16, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…Toledo applies his encyclopedic rock knowledge to writing indelible, engaging songs that manage to sound so big and yet feel so personal.”<\/p>\n –Steven Hyden on Uproxx<\/em>, Dec. 15, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Rookie of the Year: Car Seat Headrest”<\/p>\n –Lior Phillips on Consequence of Sound<\/em>, Dec. 15, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “This first studio-recorded LP from the band, Teens of Denial<\/em> is frustration, confusion and humor in one of its best rock interpretations.”<\/p>\n –Skye Leppo\u00a0on The Key<\/em>, Dec. 15, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “When that crunching and cathartic ‘it doesn’t have to be like this’ refrain finally kicks in, it’s nearly as bracing as any face-slapping Nirvana chorus.”<\/p>\n —Farce the Music<\/em>, Dec. 15, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “This is 23-year-old Will Toledo’s 13th album, a tale of 20-something lives and 90s influenced American indie rock par excellence<\/em>.”<\/p>\n –Kernan Andrews in the Galway (Ireland) Advertiser<\/em>, Dec. 15, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “‘Drunk Drivers\/Killer Whales’ was essentially indie rock\u2019s anthem in 2016.”<\/p>\n –Eli Enis in The Alternative<\/em>, Dec. 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Every generation gets the bookish, depressive indie-rock superstar it deserves, and you could scribble out the margins of every notebook inside a Staples with all the soul-scraping lines packed into Car Seat Headrest\u2019s Teens of Denial<\/em>.”<\/p>\n –Jeremy Gordon on Spin<\/em>, Dec. 13, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “A feel-good album about people chemically incapable of feeling good, Teens of Denial\u00a0<\/i>reckons mental illness, alienation, and a blooper reel\u2019s worth of false epiphanies without angst or coddling…”<\/span><\/p>\n –Mike Powell on Pitchfork<\/em>, Dec. 13, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Teens Of Denial is that record I never got tired of.”<\/p>\n –Steven on 107.7 The End<\/em> (Seattle), Dec. 13, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Teens Of Denial<\/em> is a massive statement, proof that the scruffiness of those old songs was more necessity than style.”<\/p>\n –A.G. on Uproxxx<\/em>, Dec. 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…to paraphrase one of Toledo\u2019s ancestors, a perfect sound is a perfect sound forever, and Denial<\/i> found him honing it into his most cohesive, most endlessly replayable set yet.”<\/p>\n –Sean O’Neal on The A.V. Club<\/em>, Dec. 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “As a songwriter, Toledo captures what it\u2019s like to be an awkward but thoughtful and intelligent man in his twenties in the modern era.”<\/p>\n –Bdog on The Gourmet Bachelor<\/em>, Dec. 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…with\u00a0Teens of Denial,<\/i>\u00a0Will Toledo has crafted a lofty, lyrically observant, melodic heavy and fun-as-hell album that does its predecessors well.”<\/p>\n —Aquarium Drunkard<\/em>, Dec. 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “The chorus of the song…hits at the feeling of being an anxious millennial directly.”<\/p>\n –Corey Leung re: “Fill in the Blank” on Twin Sheep<\/em>, Dec. 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Whether he\u2019s lamenting his lost backpack or pondering that next glass of beer, Toledo makes the mundane sound brainy and cool.”<\/p>\n –Marcus J. Moore in Spin<\/em>, Dec. 12, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “His music is moving and even deeply affecting at times.”<\/p>\n –Joshua B. Hoe on On Pirate Satellite<\/em>, Dec. 11, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Thank you, Car Seat Headrest, for delivering the best indie-rock album in years.”<\/p>\n –Jim Harrington in the (San Jose) Mercury News<\/em>, Dec. 9, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Teens of Denial<\/em> collects a still more impressive dozen artful packed-with-ideas songs that never trip over their own ambition.”<\/p>\n –Dan DeLuca in the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, Dec. 9, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “We followed everyone\u2019s favorite new rock band Car Seat Headrest around SXSW 2016, just as they broke through.<\/i><\/span>”<\/p>\n –Chris Chafin in Brooklyn Magazine<\/em>, Dec. 9, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “They’re basically everything you ever wanted in a band, and will hit that spot for a music craving pretty much every time you have one.”<\/p>\n –Jackie Yeager in Bands in Town<\/em>, Dec. 9, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Toledo\u2019s vivid lyricism pumps Denial<\/em>\u2019s 70 minutes full of heart and humanity…”<\/p>\n –Eric Renner Brown in Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, Dec. 8, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “‘Vincent’ starts with 2\u00bd minutes of gathering guitar Minimalism, adding a motor beat; then Will Toledo\u2019s voice arrives, with bipolar confessions of self-doubt and excess, as the music just keeps building.”<\/p>\n –Jon Pareles in the New York Times<\/em>, Dec. 7, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Toledo is one of those rare talents whose precision as a songwriter is matched by his gift for arrangement.”<\/p>\n –Andrea Domanick on noisey<\/em>, Dec. 7, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…he managed to make a record that was as good as any rock record, maybe one of the best rock records of the century, and maybe one of the top 10 rock records ever made.”<\/p>\n –Bob Boilen on NPR<\/em>, Dec. 6, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “The record is a near-masterpiece, big and ambitious but still precise in every moment…and if he\u2019s going to be the<\/em> voice, or even a<\/em> voice, of indie rock moving forward, I feel like we\u2019re in good hands.”<\/p>\n –Nate Scott in USA Today<\/em>, Dec. 6, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “The complexity of the songwriting on Teens of Denial<\/i> isn\u2019t just a craftsman showing off; it\u2019s the work of someone building something elaborate enough to hide inside.”<\/p>\n –J. Edward Keyes on Bandcamp<\/em>, Dec. 6, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “One of the best rising acts in rock.”<\/p>\n –Scott Russell re: Will Toledo in Paste Magazine<\/em>, Dec. 6, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…someone who can express the torments and depressions of a generation with a twisted sense of humor and music that shambles as recklessly as life itself.”<\/p>\n —Bitter Southerner re: Wi<\/em>ll Toledo, Dec. 6, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “I admire a lot of music, but this<\/em> is what I want from music.”<\/p>\n –Bob Boilen on NPR Music<\/em>, Dec. 5, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “If this doesn\u2019t make you wanna crank the car stereo and go all Cannonball Run, you need new ears.”<\/p>\n –Matt Reilly re: “Vincent” on NPR Music<\/em>, Dec. 5, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “‘Drunk Drivers \/ Killer Whales’ says something about every year, every day, and every waking moment in our life, and that\u2019s such a hard thing to do\u00a0as a writer.”<\/p>\n –Michael Roffman on Consequence of Sound<\/em>, Dec. 5, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “…it simply and positively rocks.”<\/p>\n –Patrick Green on Crave<\/em>, Dec. 5, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Car Seat\u2019s entire set was pristine, and the band has clearly grown into their skin as live performers.”<\/p>\n –Dylan Sies on Northwest Music Scene<\/em>, Dec. 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “My good friend and roommate Julia always insists that the success of a first date can be determined by turning on the song ‘Drunk Drivers\/Killer Whales’ in the car and seeing if they\u2019re singing along by the end.”<\/p>\n –Adrienne Hohensee on KXSU (Seattle University)<\/em>, Dec. 2, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n Will Toledo’s review of Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo”<\/p>\n —Talkhouse<\/em>, Dec. 2, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Toledo may posture as an underachiever, but with Teens Of Denial<\/em>, he\u2019s achieved something great, transcending his Bandcamp origins to create a work that rivals its lofty influences.”<\/p>\n –Peter Helman on Stereogum<\/em>, Dec. 1, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n “Toledo\u2019s open-book approach to personal struggles provides a scarred but triumphant human heart at the center of these 11 blazing epics, all of which find a radio friendly angle in the uncertainties of youth.”<\/p>\n –Jeff Terich in American Songwriter<\/em>, Dec. 1, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “This is an instant indie-rock classic.” –Allan Raible on ABC News, Dec. 30, 2016 “…one of the most critically acclaimed indie albums of the decade.” —CEG, December 27, 2016 “As a wordsmith and ideas man, Toledo is up there with a clutch of maverick geniuses…” –Tony Hardy on BestNewBands.com, Dec. 24, 2016 “Car Seat Headrest\u2019s … Continue reading “Car Seat Headrest in the News – Dec. 2016”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,101],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-seat-headrest","category-music","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}