The Magic Conch

“Teens of Denial” is the second album from the band Car Seat Headrest and was released on May 20, 2016 by Matador Records. Car Seat Headrest is an American indie rock band based out of Seattle, Washington. The group is led by Will Toledo who started the band as a solo recording project in 2010. Since the band’s beginning, it has gotten attention from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and other prominent publications. Teens of Denial has a classic indie rock sound with a very strong guitar presence in most of the songs on the album. The album has a very melancholy and depressed essence. These intense emotions are often made light of through certain lyrics, but Toledo always brings the lyrics back to a more serious note to emphasize just how strongly he feels. The lyrics in “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” tell a story of a person who is trying to make their way home after a night of drinking, but it also makes a comparison to life and how a person can feel so empty and feel ...

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