The first Car Seat Headrest release post-numbered albums is "Sunburned Shirts", Will's first EP under the Car Seat Headrest name. I was initially going to call this EP useless, and while I do still believe that to some extent (every song here is on other, longer projects), I still see this as a complete product, with some (keyword SOME) songs still connecting to eachother despite the short tracklist and runtime. This EP also sparked something weird in me and made me write some ... read more
"4" is Car Seat Headrest's fourth album and the last of the numbered albums, marking the first big shift in direction for Will Toledo's now iconic project. The album has only 9 tracks, making it one of the shortest CSH LPs in general tracklist-wise. Talking about the shift I mentioned early, this album seems to favor the structure of the individual tracks more than the earlier, longer tracklists of the first three CSH albums, which leads to less bloat; every track feels like ... read more
The first single has grown on me a lot but this one isn't it. I like the stuff they present throughout the six minutes but the ungodly autotune here is worse than on "Going Shopping" and it drags as much as stuff like "Eternal Summer", but at least that one was good.
Released around a month after "2", "3" is the fourth 2010 release from Will. This album is quite special, not only because it's the first CSH album in the green for me, but also because of the deviation from its older brothers' experimental nature. This kinda-concept album (and we'll get there eventually) is where the signature style of CSH starts to come into its own, with little tweaks being needed. Will still experiments here, though this time with the ... read more