Teens of Denial - Car Seat Headrest
The award for 'best album pretty much anyone could have made' goes to Car Seat Headrest this year. Teens of Denial isn’t a technically brilliant album, it doesn’t have solos Hendrix would struggle with and the songs, while almost experimental, never quite delve from Car Seat Headrest’s song formula. Indie Rock hasn’t been the best genre for years now, we’ve had good albums from it, but we’ve not had a great album from the genre for years. Car Seat Headrest breaks this phenomenon and with a Pavement-esque album they have made my favourite album of 2016. Will Toledo, the vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter behind Car Seat Headrest has released 11 albums, all of which were shyly recorded in lo-fi conditions with a basic formula, he released those albums online and for years he never got anything in the way of critical attention. The artwork for the album, which had to be recalled to due a publishing disagreement with New Wave band The Cars. However his tw...