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The Scholars
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It's been a hot minute since we heard from cult indie faves Car Seat Headrest, five years worth of hot minutes in fact. Now, frontman and song writer Will Toledo has announced The Scholars, a rock opera of epic proportions. Don't believe us? Check out the band's Bohemian Rhapsody moment with the brand new, eleven minute tune Gethsemane! Mamma mia! - Flying Out
From Shakespeare to Mozart to classical opera, Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo pulled from the classics when devising the lyrics and story arc of The Scholars, while the music draws, carefully, from classic rock story song cycles such as The Who’s Tommy and David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. “One thing that can be a struggle with rock operas is that the individual songs kind of get sacrificed for the flow of the plot,” Toledo notes. “I didn’t want to sacrifice that to make a very fluid narrative. And so this is sort of a middle ground where each song can be a character and it’s like each one is coming out on center stage and they have their song and dance.”
Tracklist
- CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)
- Devereaux
- Lady Gay Approximately
- The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)
- Equals
- Gethsemane
- Reality
- Planet Desperation
- True/False Lover
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