Teens of Style

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Teens of Style
Teens of Style (Front Cover).jpg
Compilation album / studio album by
ReleasedOctober 30, 2015
Genre Indie rock, lo-fi
Length46:47
Label Matador
Producer Will Toledo
Car Seat Headrest chronology
How to Leave Town
(2014)
Teens of Style
(2015)
Teens of Denial
(2016)
Singles from Teens of Style
  1. "No Passion"
    Released: July 22, 2015
  2. "Something Soon"
    Released: September 1, 2015
  3. "Times to Die"
    Released: October 6, 2015
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club A− [3]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [6]

Teens of Style is the 10th studio album by American indie rock band Car Seat Headrest, released on October 30, 2015. It was their first album recorded for Matador Records. Intended as an introductory compilation for new listeners, it features reworked, newly recorded versions of songs originally released between 2010 and 2012, with the addition of one new composition.

Contents

Background and recording

From the description of the "No Passion" music video, Teens of Style is a collection of older Car Seat Headrest songs, rerecorded in 2015 to make a sonically expanded new release.

From Interview magazine, "At the time that I was originally recording the songs, I don't think I considered them to be the final versions, [...] They were just self-recorded and I wanted to do them properly at some point." [7]

Speaking with Stereogum, Toledo said: "I’d had the idea for a while, including when I was originally recording them; it felt like the best I could do at the time, rather than something I’d really be happy with forever. That was part of the appeal with digital albums, is that they could feel less ‘official’, and I could mess with them long after their technical release date. I often went back and tweaked stuff on past albums I felt could be better, but I also wanted to do a more comprehensive overhaul of the best of it, to give it new life. And I'd always thought ‘studio’ when thinking of that, but by the time Matador came around I felt I was working well enough in the home environment to do the first album that way, and that's what ended up happening. Everything on Teens Of Style I recorded and produced myself. We got a professional, Abe Seiferth, to mix the drums and bass for Something Soon, but everything else is me. I figured this would be my last chance to do something that still sounded & felt like the ‘old’ Car Seat Headrest before we started doing bigger work." [8]

Performers on the album include the live lineup from the time of Car Seat Headrest's signing with Matador; Andrew Katz plays drums, and Jacob Bloom plays bass.

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeYearRank
Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2015 [9] 201539
Rolling Stone The 50 Best Albums of 2015 [10] 201530

Track listing

All tracks are written by Will Toledo

No.TitleLength
1."Sunburned Shirts" (from My Back Is Killing Me Baby)4:05
2."The Drum" (from My Back Is Killing Me Baby)3:57
3."Something Soon" (from My Back Is Killing Me Baby)4:20
4."No Passion" (from My Back Is Killing Me Baby)2:50
5."Times to Die" (from Monomania)6:50
6."Psst, Teenagers, Take Off Your Clo" (from 3)1:00
7."Strangers" (from My Back Is Killing Me Baby)5:39
8."Maud Gone" (from Monomania)5:58
9."Los Borrachos (I Don't Have Any Hope Left, But the Weather is Nice)" (from Monomania)6:23
10."Bad Role Models, Old Idols Exhumed (psst, teenagers, put your clothes back o)"1:54
11."Oh! Starving" (from 3 and Starving While Living)3:51
Total length:46:52

Personnel

Car Seat Headrest

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [11] 117
US Heatseeker Albums [12] 19

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