Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars

Double Album 2LP Black Vinyl Records

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The Scholars is the fourteenth studio album by American indie rock band Car Seat Headrest, released in May 2025 via Matador Records.

The first studio album from Car Seat Headrest in five years, ‘The Scholars.’

From Shakespeare to Mozart to classical opera, 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.’

“One thing that can be a struggle with rock operas is that the individual songs kind of get sacrificed for the flow of the plot,” Toledo notes. “I didn’t want to sacrifice that to make a very fluid narrative. And so this is sort of a middle ground where each song can be a character and it’s like each one is coming out on center stage and they have their song and dance”.

While Car Seat Headrest started as Toledo’s solo project, the four-piece is now fully a band. “What we’ve been doing more of in recent years is just taking the pulses of each other.” says Toledo. “It didn’t really feel to me like things got in sync in an inner feeling way until this record, with that internal communal energy. And it’s become that band feeling for me in a much more realized way. That’s been a big journey.”

It is a journey that listeners will want to embark on again and again as they absorb and discover the rich depths and clanging resonances of ‘The Scholars.’

The album is supported by release of three singles; "Gethsemane", "CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)", and "The Catastrophe”.

This double album 2LP record set is on black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with a 28 page booklet, pressed in the US via Matador Records.

(21295)

Tracklisting:

 

No.

Track

Time

A1

CCF (I'm Gonna Stay with You)

8:11

A2

Devereaux

4:30

B3

Lady Gay Approximately

3:47

B4

The Catastrophe (Good Luck with That, Man)

5:28

B5

Equals

4:11

C6

Gethsemane

10:51

C7

Reality

11:14

D8

Planet Desperation

18:52

D9

True/False Lover

3:28

SKU 21295
Record Label Matador Records
Label / Model # Independent
Catalogue Number OLE2132LP
Country US - United States
Release Date (Year) 02 May 2025
Original Release Date (Year) 02 May 2025
Barcode # 191401213219
Shipping Weight 0.7000kg
Shipping Width 0.010m
Shipping Height 0.314m
Shipping Length 0.314m
Shipping Cubic 0.000986000m3
Type New
Format Limited Edition Double Album 2LP Records, Black Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, 28 Page Booklet
Vinyl Colour Black
Format VINYL LP
Genre Rock & Popular

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