Car Seat Headrest are again with their first new album in 5 years: The Scholars, a self-described rock opera, is out Could 2 through Matador. Along with tour dates, Will Toledo and his bandmates have additionally unveiled an 11-minute, multi-part music titled “Gethsemane” and its accompanying music video, directed by Andrew Wonder. Watch the clip for the sprawling new music beneath.
Set on the fictional school campus Parnassus College, The Students focuses on a unique pupil or workers member on every music to inform tales of life, loss of life, and rebirth. “Gethsemane” follows Rosa, a medical faculty pupil who revives a deceased affected person by absorbing their ache, an influence she’s been suppressing since childhood. “Every night time, as an alternative of goals, she encounters the uncooked ache and tales of the souls she touches all through the day,” defined Toledo. “Actuality blurs, and he or she finds herself taken deep into secret services buried beneath the medical faculty, the place historical beings that covertly reign over the school carry forth their darkish plans.”
Automotive Seat Headrest will carry their follow-up to 2020’s Making a Door Less Open on the highway once they tour the US this 12 months. The band has spaced out the 9 exhibits with comparatively lengthy gaps between each, starting on Could 16, in Salt Lake Metropolis, and ending on November 1, in Oakland—partially resulting from Toledo’s well being following a extreme response to COVID-19 years in the past. Discover Automotive Seat Headrest’s full record of tour dates beneath.
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The Students:
01 CCF (I’m Gonna Keep With You)
02 Devereaux
03 Woman Homosexual Roughly
04 The Disaster (Good Luck With That, Man)
05 Equals
06 Gethsemane
07 Actuality
08 Planet Desperation
09 True/False Lover
Automotive Seat Headrest:
05-16 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – Kilby Block Get together
06-07 Queens, NY – Governors Ball Music Pageant 2025
06-28 Washington, D.C. – The Anthem
07-12 Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
07-26 Chicago, IL – Salt Shed (Fairgrounds)
08-08 Los Angeles, CA – The Greek
09-12 Philadelphia, PA – Highmark Skyline on the Mann
09-27 Boston, MA – MGM Music Corridor
11-01 Oakland, CA – The Fox
