Teens of Denial

Personnel: Will Toledo (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, Mellotron); Ethan Ives (vocals, guitar); Andrew Katz (vocals, Mellotron, drums, percussion); Jon Maus (trumpet).Recording information: Soundhouse and Avast! Studios.Photographer: Gordon S. Fisk.If you cranked out 11 homemade albums in just four years, you'd probably want to go big once you had the means to make a for-real long-player for a noted indie label. And though 2016's Teens of Denial isn't Car Seat Headrest's first album for Matador Records, this is the first one founder, frontman, and songwriter Will Toledo built from the ground up for the label. Arriving in 2015, Teens of Style was a re-recorded "best-of" that revisited Toledo's earlier material, but Teens of Denial is a grand-scale 70-minute song cycle about a kid named Joe who is wrestling with the traditional dilemmas of late adolescence and early adulthood. Unlike the lion's share of Toledo's work, Teens of Denial was recorded in a professional studio with a real produ