Car Seat Headrest: “God fucking damn it, I’m becoming the next Father John Misty, aren’t I?”

Published: December 02, 2016

As I've spent the last couple of days reading early-trigger best of 2016 lists and filling in gaps of albums I haven't given time to, one thing has become abundantly clear: in 2016, indie rock is a deeply unfashionable genre.

Maybe it says something about the vitality of formerly underrepresented voices and points of view, or the fact that major albums are driven primarily by big personalities and bigger follower counts, but nobody seems to be stanning for the horn-rimmed record store dwellers this year. Aside from a few that would more accurately be classified as emo or folk or pop punk, the only real indie rock album that has been showing up on multiple lists is Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial.

Well, if social media drama is the way to get attention these days, Car Seat Headrest's Will Toledo is earning it today. Sure, said social media drama took place on indie Tumblr, where Kermit memes rarely appear and beef typically centres around hot buttons like "very uncool typographical blunders," but he managed to piss off some sensitive Sufjan Stevens fans today. All it took was this blistering take on last year's best reviewed indie album. “I wish Carrie & Lowell felt less like a sucessful (sic) exercise in generating ‘Sadness’ and more like a collection of songs that the artist cared about writing.”

His one sentence review seemed to have pissed off enough fans that he subsequently deleted it.

Luckily, Toledo had a 1500 word Kanye thinkpiece ready for just this occasion, and his nuanced Talkhouse piece on The Life of Pablo seemed to deflect the (again, very muted) controversy. That is, until he returned to Tumblr to explain why he deleted his earlier Sufjan statement:

https://carseatheadrest.tumblr.com/post/153950765456/god-fucking-damn-it-im-becoming-the-next-father

Be careful, Will. I speak from experience when I say writing critically about Father John Misty at this time of year can earn you thousands of angry words in your inbox.

Quick, say something about Bon Iver.

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