Automotive Seat Headrest have remade Teenagers of Denials, fashioning the breakout LP into one thing resembling an idea album. Out right this moment for the document’s tenth anniversary, Teen of Denial: Joe’s Story adjusts the unique lyrics and threads into new recordings to raised inform the titular character’s story. “The ensuing work,” Will Toledo says in press supplies, “feels extra just like the album Teenagers of Denial was meant to be.” The band reunited with authentic producer Steve Fisk for the document. Hearken to it beneath forward of a bodily launch on October 16.
The character of Joe, Toledo explains, was an homage to Daniel Johnston, who used the identify in a number of songs “as a type of joke, a stand-in for himself.” He goes on, “I began pondering—who’s Joe? And the way do the songs, in the way in which they’re sequenced on the album, mirror what he’s going by means of? As I began asking this query, a narrative emerged with startling wholeness and readability, like discovering the foundations of an historic metropolis whereas digging in my yard. As I saved digging, sure songs from the unique album fell by the wayside, as they appeared misplaced on this new context; others requested for brand new lyrics, to totally give delivery to the story contained within the music.”
Whereas the unique emerged from a university life full of “cynicism and misplaced aggression,” he provides, the intervening years allowed him to “pull from reminiscences of that darkness, and use the gap and extra perspective of ten years of life to shed a fuller gentle on the expertise.” The unique, in fact, stays untouched on streaming providers.
Toledo concludes, “For anybody conversant in Teenagers, comparisons with the unique will likely be inevitable, however I do hope that as a lot as doable, folks can come to this album by itself phrases, approaching it as a teen, listening to the music and story for the primary time. I imagine music is an ongoing story, and albums don’t all the time do justice to its dynamic, ongoing nature. What offers it life is the brand new ears that hear it, and the brand new hearts that interact with it.”
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