Making A Door Less Open, the new album from Car Seat Headrest is the first set of brand-new songs since Teens Of Denial. Making a Door Less Open is the result of a fruitful “collaboration” between Will Toledo, and 1 Trait Danger, a electronic side project
Car Seat Headrest's Will Toledo pulled from the classics when devising the lyrics and story arc of 'The Scholars,' while the music draws, carefully, from classic rock story song cycles such as The Who's 'Tommy' and David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust.'
His first real "studio" album with an actual band, Will Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic rock grandeur and huge narrative ambitions, with nods to the Cars, Pavement, Jonathan Richman, Wire, and William Onyeabor.
Plastic death is a complete, uncompromising, playful work of art; every corner and crevice of the record's 13 tracks, each arrangement and timbre and texture, is alive with intention and possibility.
A unique and fascinating album in Tim Maia's discography, blending his signature funk and soul style with the unusual influence of the Rational Culture.
From the syncopated chaos of the opening salvo 'The Great Secret' to the melodic mosh of 'Old Light' as close as ETID have ever come to a radio-friendly unit shifter from Parts Unknown sees Every Time I Die pushing the limits of their own sound.