Twin Fantasy

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Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you’ll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” - thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it. On the heels of the smashing success of Teens of Denial, Car Seat Headrest releases a new version of Twin Fantasy. Vettese, Hannah (February 2018). "Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy". Record Collector (476) . Retrieved February 16, 2018. I'm rambling. Would hardly consider this a review. Things are so different now. I think I may be getting on my wife's nerves now with how much I adore this album. It embodies my everyday aura now. And I've built a little hut for it inside my cranium. Time to build little apartments for the rest of Will's catalogue.

Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. My copy has quite a lot of surface noise, and the sound quality feels really subpar in most of the songs compared to the digital version. Robert Christgau on the Desperation of Ezra Furman and Car Seat Headrest". Noisey. 2018-03-16 . Retrieved 2018-07-28. Beach Life in Death" by Car Seat Headrest Review | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com . Retrieved 2017-12-29.Cute Thing contains elements of "Ana Ng" (J. Linnell/J. Flansburgh) TMBG Music (BMI). All rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI).

Today I’m returning to this album after quite a while of not listening to it, at least in full. I’ve of course listened to certain songs such as Bodys, Famous Prophets and of course Beach Life-in-Death plenty, but sitting down and listening to the film 71 minutes? I haven’t really done it, at least not in recent memory. Twin Fantasy (Mirror To Mirror): ℗ 2011 Car Seat Headrest under exclusive license to Matador Records.Car Seat Headrest's Will Toledo Talks About the Lo-Fi Aesthetic, Remaking His Old Songs and Borrowing From Others". CityBeat Cincinnati . Retrieved 2019-06-29.

There was something else I had though; something else that kept me sane, kept me going. That was music. The new Car Seat Headrest album, Twin Fantasy, is a completely re-recorded version of an album that Toledo originally released in 2011. There’s not much precedent for this sort of do-over—if this were film, say, it’d be like Steven Soderbergh re-making Sex, Lies and Videotape, which I could actually see him doing at some point. But Toledo, two years after his last batch of new songs, apparently believes enough in this album to think that he can make a better version of it to share with the wider world. It's a sad commentary when the best album of the year IMO is just a re-recording of an album from 7 years prior. If I were Will Toledo, I never would have remade Twin Fantasy, but I understand why he did. Brusie, David (February 16, 2018). "Car Seat Headrest, Twin Fantasy". The A.V. Club . Retrieved February 16, 2018. The re-recording of the 2011 album, of the same name. Released on February 16, 2018, this version of the album is dubbed Twin Fantasy (Face to Face), with the original version now being called Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror). These new titles derive from the Bible verse 1 Corinthians 13:12; part of a famous chapter discussing love. The new titles are referenced multiple times throughout this version.Originally released on November 2nd, 2011 and pressed onto vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day 2018. This new pressing is available on white colored vinyl. Ultratop.be – Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 24, 2018. Top 100 Albumes – Semana 8: del 16.2.2018 al 22.2.2018" (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España . Retrieved March 1, 2018. I don’t think it’s fair to say that this album or this band is what kept me alive, but they definitely played a major part in it.