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March 2025: The Scholars
🕑 Added 2025-03-04 19:00:06 +0000 UTCToday is the official announce of the next Car Seat Headrest album, “The Scholars”! It comes out on May 2nd; its first single, “Gethsemane”, is out today, with a music video by Andrew Wonder. I'll just link to our website here, because I'm drafting this on Monday and I don't have any of the other links yet.
I’m happy to have the first piece of this record out, and thrilled that we had the opportunity to share Gethsemane with all of you before the official drop, via the webs quest that has been going on the past few weeks. Having fans find out about a song or album when one DSP or another randomly uploads it the night before the release is no fun. We were all amazed at how fast you solved the puzzles we set out for you. I’m a bit disappointed that no fan made the trek to Wisconsin, but at least we were able to make some riddles that were guess-proof and AI-proof.
There will probably be a lot of my blather about the record already circulating online, but I’ll see if I can say anything here that I haven’t said yet. In my head, it’s a bit of a theatrical piece - something you go into with the CD booklet (or vinyl booklet!) and enter into another world for an hour. It’s set in the fictional, time-ambiguous college campus of Parnassus University, where old rivalries and ancient forces lurk within the activities of the main characters who populate the album’s tracks.
This is a culmination of several different threads of the creative process that CSH has had brewing for a decade - creating as a band, collaging and cutting up songs to see what works, and cultivating concepts to guide the structure of the album around. It was a pleasure to work with such talented friends throughout, and working on this album got me through some dark days in the past five years, especially with COVID. “Gethsemane” and other tracks reflect both that darkness and the light hidden underneath.
The album’s design and art is the result of a year of collaboration with Cate Wurtz, whose work has adorned many a CSH album, and who recently finished their ten-year comic series ‘crow cillers’ in a truly masterful fashion. You can read the finale on her Patreon, and dig into the series if you haven’t yet. For “The Scholars”, Cate created a whole host of characters and setting designs based on some initial input on what the college and characters might be like, as we continued to work on the music. She was really tireless in her efforts to get every character right, and there’s a real trove of concept art behind the scenes now, in addition to the bounty of final art you get when you purchase the record.
We will also be doing some more shows this year! Only in the US, unfortunately, and not a very widespread tour, as I have to plan conservatively to stay in healthy shape. Nevertheless, we’re all really looking forward to bringing these new songs to the stage. The dates are on our website.
That’s all for now, but you will surely hear more from us soon! Thanks for making this rollout fun already; and thanks for the fan-art which you all have been so quick to start making of the album characters. (TOO quick? Give your hands a break; there will be plenty of time to enjoy this.) Here's some more art Cate did in celebration of the announce.
Comments
Diana
Hey your link the website has been hijacked!
Clarissa Hernandez
ANDREW KATZ UR AN ANGEL IN PLANET DESPERATION WTF
Clarissa Hernandez
This album is blessing my ears for the first time right now. I cannot wait to see you guys in concert at Kilby Block Party!! I’m gonna make jewelry and toss it at the stage if that’s OK!!
Sac
Glad partydogs still active
oxroot
does anyone have any extra chicago tickets?
ryann alleman
will toledo, you get me so much. i relate to every word in this post its insane- i think mercury is in retrograde or whatever. ive been very interested in theatrics and art and music and creativity and writing lately and ive gotten an amazing job and car seat headrest has gotten me through so incredibly much. thank you. you matter. 💕🐟🦆🐠😇
Dylan
Anyone coming to Philly??
Kate
Booked Boston for the whole family! Can’t wait 💕
Silje Pedersen
Hope you’ll one day be able to tour a bit in Europe, I would travel the continent too be able too se you guys perform ones. I wish you all the best with your health journey. I also struggle with long-covid and have had too take time away from studies to better my health. I think this new album will give me some relief from my struggles when listening, I’m so excited 🌸 Thank you!
Joce t
hell yeah :) i'd really like to go, are there any plans re: covid mitigation/asking people to mask ?
vincent ✩
so so so excited for the album .. i’ve been bumping a hack-job spliced version of gethsemane since it’s been coming out in pieces so im super hyped to listen to it in full🤍🤍 amazing work guys lovelovelove the direction of this album
isa
So excited !!! I pray you feel fondly enough about twamps to visit us one day for a concert perhaps 🙏🙏 regardless I can’t wait for the DC concert !!
ava
gethsemane video was crazy i love it
Esma Demiryürek
Soo excited for the album, concerts and artwork!!! I blurted out a YES when the BBC person said Gethsemane is an 11-minute song before they played it. And there will be a 19-minute one? YES! See you in Boston!
Cooper
Gethsemane is incredible. I'm also really liking Cates art, I feel like it gives the album it's own unique sense of art direction, and I'm sure it'll look incredible on merch (that I'll be buying, 100%).
antiLimit
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS GONNA BE SO GOOD also should we expect the super deluxe to restock at some point or are the copies sold now the only batch ever? regardless i'm SUPER EXCITED
jvck.sins
i am so so happy and excited for the new record. hopefully will be getting the super deluxe + shirt bundle 🖤
oxroot
so so awesome i am so excited for the album!!!! philly and chicago yippee ^_^
Sam Bradley
So stoked. I had a dream recently where I was in this huge school. The hallways twisted and turned, it was very strange. It had all sorts of weird hiding spots and balconies. Anyway - Will was there putting on a stage play. There were a bunch of people dressed as Trait. How weird is that? Very excited for this album!
Musical dance
Hells Yeah!
Fionn
I'm so excited to see the lore of the album and where it goes:) cant wait for the release!
Ana Ng
I’m positively vibrating about the album announcement & cannot wait for it to be released in full. The web quest was a huge amount of fun & I loved every second. The album announcement has also accidentally coincided with my birthday, so today is most excellent overall
Jack
I was just going to get the digital edition since I'm trying to have less stuff, but if you recommend the booklet then physical it is
Meggie
incredibly excited for this one!! loving gesethmane & can’t wait to dive into all of the upcoming music! hoping to see you guys at the boston date 🙏
Giovanni Braga
can’t wait for it thank you guys you all are amazing
Gonty
WOOHOOO!!!
endstoppedline
so beyond excited for this album!!!!
Em
sooooo excited for philly!! congrats on the album drop csh <3
Scrade Cottontail
This album is going to be sooooo amazing!!!
Mona Borghar
YIPPEEE preordered the record instantly
surfjerk
Excited for the album to release!!! Glad to have helped you guys out with overseeing the WebQuest and discord server!
Taiga
can’t wait for the album thank you
tommy
SO EXCITEDDDDDD
