I certainly like it when it happens and I try to make it happen as much as I can.” Melody is more difficult now than it used to be. I’m focusing on the rhythmic elements and lyrical stuff but it’s less melodic. “Lately, I’ve started to have a different sense of how to write a song.
“Growing up, it was the most important thing,” he explains. Toledo’s melody lines are the sort of stuff that you want to stay stuck in your head for a long time, so it’s strange when he says that’s not coming as easy as it used to. Mainly because, for a lo-fi power pop junkie like me, Car Seat Headrest is a project you spend a lot of time hoping will come around.
I’m on the West Coast, he’s somewhere closer to the Atlantic, but it was an interview I was more than happy to lose a couple hours of sleep to. When I call Will Toledo, the new 22-year-old Matador Records signee known by his musical moniker Car Seat Headrest, I wake up earlier than I usually do.
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