Album / Artist: Car Seat Headrest - Commit Yourself Completely (Live set) / Car Seat Headrest
Label: Matador Records
Reviewed: 7/5/2019
DJ Stace
General Comments / Release Notes
Label Info: "“This is a compilation of songs from shows we played in 2018,” says Will Toledo. “We recorded every show we did that year, and I went through about 50 of them to get the final tracklist for this album. This isn’t necessarily the best possible version of each track, but it’s some of the most fun we’ve had on stage. I particularly remember the show we did in the small French town of Amiens, maybe the smallest show we did that year, and how great it felt to be up in people’s faces with everyone plugging in to the music right away. The recordings we made of the shows came out very clean, so rather than try to artificially recreate how it sounded in the different venues night to night, I tried to give the whole album that in-your-face feeling, like we’re playing the songs right in front of you. When you’re onstage with everything happening at once, you never really know what it sounds like in the room anyways; all you know is how the music is feeling. Hopefully this will give you a sense of what these shows felt like.”"
FCCs:
RIYL: Stef Chura, Alex G, Parquet Courts
Play:
Tracks:
- Cosmic Hero (Live at the Tramshed, Cardiff, Wales) 10:26 - FCC “ass,” “goddamn,” “fuck”. A slow burn of a rock song that builds to a rousing crescendo.
- Fill In The Blank (Live at Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH) 05:05
- Drugs With Friends (Live at La Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France) 06:16
- Bodys (Live at La Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France) 06:01
- Cute Thing (Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, England) 06:23
- Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales (Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, England) 08:45
- Destroyed By Hippie Powers (Live at the Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR) 05:28
- Ivy (Live at the Capitol Theater, Olympia, WA) 05:11
- Beach Life-in-Death (Live at Crossroads, KC, Kansas City, MO) 13:22