Car Seat HeadrestBest Car Seat Headrest Albums Ranked

Making a Door Less Open

loudandquiet

9.0

“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”

Twin Fantasy

thelineofbestfit

9.0

“Car Seat Headrest go back to go forward on the revisited Twin Fantasy”

Twin Fantasy

pitchfork

8.6

“Will Toledo’s re-recorded version of an album originally released in 2011 speaks to his greatest gifts as a songwriter: wit, cynicism, and an eye for detail that captures teenaged desire and heartache.”

The Scholars

pastemagazine

8.5

“After their divisive 2020 LP Making a Door Less Open, the Seattle band returns with their best new album in almost a decade.”

Teens of Denial

pitchfork

8.5

“On Car Seat Headrest's first proper new album for Matador, frontman Will Toledo reaffirms that he is ahead of the pack as an imaginative singer-songwriter, capable of crafting dynamic indie rock.”

Teens of Style

pitchfork

8.1

“Teens of Style is the Matador debut of Will Toledo, a young songwriter who blends the cracked pop oddity of Guided by Voices with the emotional directness of Belle and Sebastian. His lyrics are rapaciously intelligent and self-aware, but he never lets his prodigious literary intelligence get in the way of crafting enjoyably off-kilter, anthemic rock songs.”