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Car Seat Headrest
last updated 2026-09-11 11:26
Car Seat Headrest
Plays on LTZ: 5 across 5 shows (2023-10-26, 2025-03-13, 2025-04-10, 2026-05-29, 2026-06-04)
09. Car Seat Headrest — Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
Car Seat Headrest is Will Toledo, from Leesburg, Virginia. Teens of Denial (2016, Matador) was his commercial and critical breakthrough. Teen of Denial: Joe's Story was released May 20, 2026 — a 10th-anniversary re-imagining of the album reframed around a character called Joe. Toledo returned to the studio with original producer Steve Fisk to tweak lyrics, revise arrangements, and write new songs including "Ravenous House" and "Joe Drives Again." The re-recording was controversial: some critics argued the original needed no revision. "Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales" is one of the re-recorded tracks, extended to 6:10.
Placement: TikTok opener for Segment 3. The controversy is the hook. The six-minute run gives the segment room before Oliver Elf Army changes the texture.
Car Seat Headrest — Sober to Death
Played: 2026-06-04 (Segment 6 — Late night) (TikTok)
Car Seat Headrest is the project of Will Toledo, a Virginia-born musician who recorded his early albums alone in his car and posted them to Bandcamp. Twin Fantasy was recorded when Toledo was 18-19 and released in November 2011 as a digital-only Bandcamp album — the sixth in a run of self-released records made before he was signed. "Sober to Death" is track four: begins as a finger-picked acoustic song before opening into a raw pop-rock anthem, built around the lyric "We were wrecks before we crashed into each other." Toledo later re-recorded the entire album as Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror) in 2018 — full band, rewritten lyrics, remixed and expanded. This is the original: lo-fi, teenage, unfiltered. Opens segment six, its rawness pairing well with what follows — Laura Cahen's French chanson and Angèle's late-night electronic rework.
TikTok angle: Will Toledo recorded Twin Fantasy at 19, alone in his car — where the band name Car Seat Headrest came from — and posted it to Bandcamp in 2011. Seven years later, after signing to Matador, he re-recorded the whole album with a full band, new lyrics and changed arrangements. This TikTok played the original, unfiltered 2011 version.
Car Seat Headrest
Origin: Leesburg, Virginia, US (later Seattle, Washington) · started as a solo project in 2010, became a full band in 2015 · active