TWIN FANTASY

Description

Big news for Car Seat Headrest fans: 'Twin Fantasy,' Will Toledo's masterpiece released in 2011 on Bandcamp, is getting a second life, reimagined and re-recorded. Toledo always saw 'Twin Fantasy' as an unfinished work. His great ambitions had always been hampered by technical limitations: at nineteen, on a cheap computer, he recounted his first love, singing the visceral emotions of a teenager with his gin bottle, bruised shins, and first sexual encounters. However, the awkwardness and sound distortion matter little to legions of fans who glorify this album. One can clearly hear – and feel – what Will confides: his hopes and sorrows, his follies and his secrets. 'Twin Fantasy' is not a monologue; it is a discussion. And that is Will Toledo's greatest strength as a songwriter: by singing his own story, he always tells something of yours too. Today, he has more resources, a band to accompany him, and all the time in the world to polish this emblematic album. And the result is not a superficial second take, sanitized in the studio and stripped of its emotional power; quite the opposite. It's the album he always wanted to make. The sound he always wanted to produce. The story he always wanted to write. So now, it's our turn to listen!