7.2
Avg Score
11
Opinions
#24,494
All Time
11
Tracks
“Car Seat Headrest have grown up a lot in the last few years. Their new album, Making A Door Less Open, is a testament to that. It reaches depths previously unseen—inspired, according to Will Toledo, by the genre-transcendent nature of living in the internet age. The new album is a masterclass in mixing influences seamlessly. Can a song be folk and punk? Toledo thinks so. The songs range in wildly”
“Mastermind Will Toledo leaves the door ajar for future tweaks and reimaginings”
“as confounding as its knowing title suggests”
“On his odd and ambitious new album, singer-songwriter Will Toledo dons a gas mask, adds electronic textures, and tries to separate himself from the indie fame of Car Seat Headrest.”
“There’s a strange psychological cross-pollination going on behind the mask that Will Toledo, the artist mostly known as Car Seat Headrest, sports on the cover of his 12th album. Indulging an alter ego called Trait, Making a Door Less Open seeks out deliberately eclectic hybrids of his wry, lo-fi indie rock style (heir to the likes of Beck, Lou Barlow and Eels) and the satirical EDM he and his drum”
“Will Toledo misfires for the first time in his storied career on Making A Door Less Open”
