There’s not much precedent for this sort of do-over—if this were film, say, it’d be like Steven Soderbergh re-making Sex, Lies and Videotape, which I could actually see him doing at some point. Doctor’s appointments, hospital visits, constant anxiety; both of us felt completely hopeless, and my condition only worsened. Between nods to local details - Harper’s Ferry, The Yellow Wallpaper, the Monopoly board collecting dust in his back seat - he leaves room for the fragile stuff of your own life, your own loves. A chorus from one song might show up as the bridge in another; a lyric might connect to an observation made earlier in the record, or even the record before. The album has been downloaded over 33k times on Bandcamp, where the comments left by fans feel like testimonials.

On January 9, 2018, Matador officially announced the release of the re-recording, entitled Twin Fantasy (Face to Face), alongside a tour announcement and a music video for the single "Nervous Young Inhumans" . Such an amazing album from the mind of a fking 17 year old with the instrumentals of now a smarter will.Today though I want to talk about my experience with this album and what it means to me like so many others have; it almost feels like a right of passage.

Each morning was torture as a new dawn meant another day of either school or nothing as my alternative was everything being confiscated from me as a punishment to get me to go to school; it didn’t work. and i don't blame it for that, better to stay true to the original , regardless of how amateur it was. There is the occasional moment that I prefer on this version, as well as the whole of Cute Thing which is much better than its 2011 counterpart. I wouldn’t say it’s exactly something I’ve been putting off, it’s more that this album hasn’t come back into my radar until recently, five years on, now that I’m in my first physical relationship and have been for the past ten months. From the very beginning, alone in his bedroom, in his last weeks of high school, he knew he was writing anthems.I'm not a native English speaker (as you may probably tell HAHAHA), so I've always had trouble with wrapping my head around many songs and their lyrical content, if it's not flat-out explained to me. Over the last few months he has disarmed packed rooms of rowdy concert goers, leaving them silent as they hold fast to every syllable sung. From top to bottom Twin Fantasy doesnt waste no time with its banging instrumentals, that will keep you wanting to listen not matter how long the song is.

In an interview with CityBeat, Toledo explained that due to his lack of resources, Twin Fantasy was unable to achieve the expansiveness he originally wanted, adding that, "it just never seemed like the book was closed on it". And Toledo’s constant tinkering goes beyond hiding Easter eggs; he also revisits older recordings until he gets them right. But Toledo pulls off an album with a jarring degree of specificity that touches on feelings familiar to almost anyone who has experienced young desire and heartbreak.But the connection he makes to the music of others is nothing compared to the density of the internal references. The album received a "Best New Music" certification from Pitchfork, with Mark Richardson commenting that "Toledo pulls off an album with a jarring degree of specificity that touches on feelings familiar to almost anyone who has experienced young desire and heartbreak. And I don't know if I'm secreting hormones at mach speed or something, but now this record feels so different.

Every morning was the same for the two of us and it felt like a cycle that would never end, but it only got worse. The production values are somewhere on the lower end of inexpensive mid-tier indie rock, but the meat-and-potatoes sonics ultimately serve to make the record sound timeless.

Edward Keyes described Twin Fantasy as "not only the best album in Toledo's catalog, [but] one of the young year's best rock albums, period," concluding that the result of the revisions, "is a blistering rock record of tremendous scope and heft, richly detailed and overflowing with memorable melodies. Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) is the eleventh studio album by American indie rock band Car Seat Headrest, released on February 16, 2018.