Car Seat Headrest fans, new and old alike, will be elated to learn that Will Toledo’s 2011’s Bandcamp masterpiece, Twin Fantasy, has been re-recorded and re-imagined and will drop February 16th on Matador Records. With a seven-piece band in tow (including members of Naked Giants), Car Seat Headrest will bring its explosive and revelatory live show to Australia, Europe, and select West Coast cities through the first half of 2018, with a full US tour to be announced at a later date.
Today’s album announcement comes with the release of “Nervous Young Inhumans” and its accompanying video. It is a frenetic, anthemic, split-screen choreographed crescendo, and the result of Toledo’s visionary work as a first-time director. Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you’ll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” – thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it.
Tour Dates:
01/26 – Bozeman, MT – Rialto
02/24 – Sydney, Australia – Sydney Limits Fest
02/25 – Perth, Australia – Rosemont
02/28 – Melbourne, Australia – Croxton
03/01 – Brisbane, Australia – Triffid
03/03 – Aukland, New Zealand – Auckland City Limits
04/06 – Eugene, OR – WOW Hall
04/08 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
04/10 – Missoula, MT – Top Hat
04/11 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
04/12 – Tacoma, WA – Real Art
04/13 – Bellingham, WA – Wild Buffalo
04/14 – Olympia, WA – Capitol Theater
05/16 -Dublin, Ireland – Olympia Theatre
05/18 – Glasgow, UK – O2 ABC
05/19 -Liverpool, UK – Invisible Wind Factory
05/21 – Bristol, UK – SWX
05/22 – Cambridge, UK – Junction 2
05/23 – London, UK – Roundhouse
05/25 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
05/26 – Paris, France – Le Trabendo
05/28 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
05/29 – Koln, Germany – Kantine
05/30 – Hamburg, Germany – Uebel & Gefahrlich
05/31 – Berlin, Germany – Festsaal Kreuzberg
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