Teens of Style
An album by Will Toledo
Teens of Style is the Matador debut of Will Toledo, a young songwriter who blends the cracked pop oddity of Guided by Voices with the emotional directness of Belle and Sebastian. His lyrics are rapaciously intelligent and self-aware, but he never lets his prodigious literary intelligence get in the way of crafting enjoyably off-kilter, anthemic rock songs.
Car Seat Headrest (né Will Toledo) has been cranking out commendable, although not entirely memorable, lo-fi bedroom pop for the past five years at an alarming rate. Toledo’s prolific output (11 self-released Bandcamp albums) is enough to make Robert Pollard raise a salty salute, but with Headrest’s 2015 release How…
The first outing with both a full band and label backing for Virginia's most prolific bedroom artists fortunately gallops more than it stumbles.
Five years ago, a teenager who now goes both by Will Toledo and Car Seat Headrest was sitting in the back of the family car somewhere in Virginia, writing songs — a young man besotted with backwards-playback effects like John Lennon nearly half a century before him.
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Car Seat Headrest is the moniker of Will Toledo, a young Virginia musician who has been self-releasing albums on his Bandcamp page for years.
It wouldn't be quite right to say that Will Toledo has so much style that it's wasting. True, over the course of five years and about a dozen
Car Seat Headrest new album 'Teens Of Style' review. The artists debut album for Matador Records comes out on October 30th. The lead track is "Times To Die"