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bedsitter23I didn't promote a lot of new artists here this year, but I do have time to squeeze in one more. Car Seat Headrest is 22 year old Will Toledo, and has gotten a lot of promotion on Sirius XMU- the "college' channel (a big media giant's version of college radio. I know, we would have complained about it in the 90s but now we're just glad something like it exists anywhere).
Will has been doing this on his own for awhile now- self-releasing 11 albums on Bandcamp, so this is a debut of sorts- in which he has recorded some tracks to be put out as an album on Merge Records.
It's lo-fi so Guided by Voices looms large, not only in terms of style and influence, but in his jump to fame. I have heard him compared to Bright Eyes, by people supposedly more knowledgeable than me, though wasn't my first thought. Funeral-era Arcade Fire comes up, and I suppose it's not wholly inaccurate. Beck and Pavement come up often in his reviews, but it's hard not to think of them.
Teens of Style isn't perfect by any means. It's just a tad bit too inconsistent, and like GBV, he obviously suffers a bit from being overprolific. Still, there are moments that hit it. "Something Soon" is the obvious "single". CSH's distortion immediately brings to mind the Strokes (a point, Toledo has heard too many times, as he has tweeted "If I sound like the Strokes, the Strokes don't sound like the Strokes."
Which isn't completely true, Will, (although it kind of is, don't expect an album of Will sounding like a shouting Julian Casablancas for 11 tracks), but you did manage to get in what may be 2015's finest music moment.
Will has been doing this on his own for awhile now- self-releasing 11 albums on Bandcamp, so this is a debut of sorts- in which he has recorded some tracks to be put out as an album on Merge Records.
It's lo-fi so Guided by Voices looms large, not only in terms of style and influence, but in his jump to fame. I have heard him compared to Bright Eyes, by people supposedly more knowledgeable than me, though wasn't my first thought. Funeral-era Arcade Fire comes up, and I suppose it's not wholly inaccurate. Beck and Pavement come up often in his reviews, but it's hard not to think of them.
Teens of Style isn't perfect by any means. It's just a tad bit too inconsistent, and like GBV, he obviously suffers a bit from being overprolific. Still, there are moments that hit it. "Something Soon" is the obvious "single". CSH's distortion immediately brings to mind the Strokes (a point, Toledo has heard too many times, as he has tweeted "If I sound like the Strokes, the Strokes don't sound like the Strokes."
Which isn't completely true, Will, (although it kind of is, don't expect an album of Will sounding like a shouting Julian Casablancas for 11 tracks), but you did manage to get in what may be 2015's finest music moment.
