los barrachos

Petty you’re Latine!?!?!? I love you even more now!!! Based off what you said about la chancla lol 😄 I’m the nonnie who thinks you’re neat btw 😊 I’m Latina too

La anónima, sí. Mi mamá es mexicana, y mi padre es negro. Entonces mi familia me llama "negrita" obviamente. Pero mi español es muy mal. Es la lengua de los niños. Yo digo "que" en lugar de "como" y "no mames guey" todo el tiempo.

Mi familia:

Pero es la razón que yo quiero el dramatismo de los BLs. Lo mismo de las telenovelas. Necisito los pendejos, los llorones, y los locos. Es como la lotería.

Mis favoritos son los barrachos.

y los barrachos quien son los católicos

porque ellos soy yo

"Hoy se bebe si Dios lo permite"

La chancla y Dios. No necesito nada mas.

Amen.

that final bit in los barrachos after the last "i dont have any hope left but the weather is nice" where it bursts into a sound wall is so good man. favorite thing in the world is wall of sound

Oh.

ok so my girlfriend @thatbebx is super into carseatheadrest. she recommended an album to me, after playing one of the songs. i listened to the album. she was right. it's great. the guy is great. what the fuck is this it's so fucking amazing.

so just for context it's like. the song she played, and my now favourite song on the album (cus i've got real good sound quality headphones), is "psst, teenagers, take off your clo" holy fuck is it amazing.

but now i'm listening to the next album "twin fantasy". the previous album, "Teens of Style", does not fucking compare. like. not a single bit. the FIRST TWO SONGS on this album are better than the best songs on the previous one.

also yeah like. not a full tier list but my faves for teens of style are the aforementioned, then "No Passion", then "Los Barrachos" (for the ending, otherwise probably still like. tied between "Something Soon" and "Maud Gone" (i'm sorry the lyrics are so mid but i fucking love the instruments cus of the synth)

as for this album. second song best so far. it's not even done after all this writing. 13 minutes of fucking bliss of like. i guess prog rock but like . you could call the lyrics like way way way in touch emo. like. this isn't definable for me right now because it is just. too good. listen to "Beach Life-In-Death" if you can. please. just do it. yes it is 13 minutes long, but if you're like me you already watch 2 hour long video essays. you know you have the time.

this has been going. well.

what’s a good weird and strange car seat headrest song??

ok ok if you’re looking for one of them crazy long 3 act songs that csh is known for i highly highly recommend beach life-in-death and famous prophets (stars). other weird and strange ones that come to mind are afterglow and los barrachos (i don’t have any hope left, but the weather is nice). that second one has a really crazy breakdown which is one of my favorite features of a lot of csh’s music. oh also the ending of dramamine is kinda wild. and this is only like the shit they have on spotify once you get to bandcamp it gets real experimental

🎶✨When you get this, put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish. Then, if you’re comfortable, send this ask/tag 10 of your followers✨🎶

I got tagged by @iinsectaa and will also likely not tag ten folks ope

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5 Songs

1. This must be the place (naive melody) - Talking Heads

2. Rocky Horror - Billy Cobb

3. 3rd Planet - Modest Mouse

4. Los Barrachos (I don't have any hope left, but the weather is nice) - Car Seat Headrest

5. Quiero - Divino Niño

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Thank you for tagging me, bugsy! 💜

review: TEENS OF STYLE

Teens of Style was Will Toledo (aka Car Seat Headrest)’s 2015 major label debut. However, rather than being a paradigm shift into new, polished studio-recorded material (which would come on the next record, Teens of Denial), it was instead a laptop-recorded look back at the Will’s lo-fi Bandcamp days, compiling together older songs from different projects (mainly his first non-numbered album My Back is Killing Me Baby and the relentless but captivating breakup record Monomania). Now that Will has a firmly established musical reputation outside of the world of Bandcamp and people are enjoying all his work, both new and old, I thought it would be a good time to explore whether this record holds up in its own right. It is more than just a greatest hits compilation? (short answer: ABSOLUTELY YES!)

I like how the refrain from SUNBURNED SHIRTS closes and opens Car Seat Headrest’s first trilogy of major label albums. It’s cool to see how, on this song and on ‘Twin Fantasy (Those Boys)’, the same words and melodies are used in totally different contexts (though, here, we also get the eargasmic “People here bang on the walls late at night…” part). This one oozes dreamlike, summery vibes. I love the psychedelic sound collage at the start and, from there, it’s a pleasure to watch the song build up into the final rock-out ending. 

The opening riff of THE DRUM is perfectly produced. Whenever it appears, sometimes without warning, I get total chills. The guitar tone cuts through like an ice pick. The verses build on this in a muddier fashion but, by the time the vocals come to a head (“The Drum’s in debt!!) I am absolutely won over. Andrew Katz’s spritely drum fills add a fitting contrast to the breakdown and final verse really does give off a bizarre sense of triumph (“he’s got his flag unfurled or something”). I enjoy how, after the opener has gradually drawn us in, this song feels like a decisive overture, a setting of the scene for the album.

SOMETHING SOON is a brilliantly put-together pop song. The verses’ lyrical vignettes of cabin-fever turn into outright desperation in the chorus. It pinpoints these feelings really accurately. The skittering breaks in the verses release themselves into the crashing choruses and outro.  Each section is bookended by the same repeating electric piano chord. The explosion from this pared down moment into the final burst of energy just seems so right.

Like ‘The Drum,’ NO PASSION also rests on an exquisite moment of production. In the final chorus when Will sings “I” in his high register, it’s like a shot through the heart. The sarcastic image of failure in the verses compliments this so well – a succession of half-formed images that seem to suck away all feeling. The comparative earnestness of “I just needed more money, more time, more love” hits home. Our generation often try to rationalise things through sarcasm when really there is something more deeply lacking in our lives. The line “All my desires are so poorly drawn” also really resonates with me.

TIMES TO DIE adds to this album’s incredibly strong selection of opening moments of tracks. The wandering bassline interlocks with the chug of a delayed guitar followed by a single note. There’s something incredibly satisfying about it, especially when you are aware of the sound bath you are about to enter. The psychedelic vocal and guitar interplay in the verses is a highlight – in the first, they mirror each other but, in the second, the guitar skirts around the vocals, carving out new crevices. Their two melodies collide at the end of said verse, in a really affecting way (“but he just keeps singing this song”). The use of horns and cut-up vocals enlivens the sound palette. It feels like a series of ancient rooms with each section or lyrics (“and when they took him to the temple…”) leading somewhere new. A light seems to shine through as the melodies cascade upwards. The “most of the time” section provides nice segue into the “divine council” part which feels like an explosion, with the “is it harder to speak?” section as its fallout. The intermingling of imagery or religion and the music business (“got to believe in the one above me, got to believe that [Vince]Lombardi [head of Matador records] loves me”) is playful and dreamlike.

PSST TEENAGERS is a fun interlude that adds some more immediate energy into a generally fairly meditative album.

The opening verses of STRANGERS leave you inquisitive as to where the song is heading. All becomes clear when the tension of the exclamatory chorus is released in the lovely, picked instrumental break that follows (again enhanced by some inventive drum rhythms). The second section is the real stunner though, starting off cocoon-like and vulnerable but leading into a volatile crescendo. The line “I won’t last too much longer” and its raw delivery convey a sense of enigmatic fragility that I find very affecting.

The keyboard riff in MAUD GONE swamps the mix in the best way possible. I love its distorted, wet tones. The sax solo at the song’s crescendo provides the perfect counterpoint to it, too. Its muscular, sinewy texture cuts through emphatically in the context of the album’s drenched sound palette. As the notes reach up, the instrument seems to become an incredible, cathartic pressure valve, leeching out a lot of confused unspoken feelings as the notes reach up. The metaphor of “a full moon every night” is enticingly simple but also utterly apt for the feelings it describes.

LOS BARRACHOS has an infectious opening synth lick. As it bubbles under the verses, I’m just waiting for it to return with its full force. The wry but combative tone of the song’s opening (“let’s […] crush the grapes beneath our feet/ like some heartbroken Bacchus”) reflects Will’s desperate attempt to rekindle this relationship, to change his situation, to turn sadness into hedonism. These illusions can’t last, however. The riff does not return. Instead the song melts into a kind of broken, abject despair. “I miss you.” The disintegration of the song’s subtitle to just “Don’t have any hope left” is heart-breaking. It’s the most visceral portrait of a breakdown I’ve ever heard.

BAD ROLE MODELS, OLD IDOLS EXHUMED is my favourite song title ever. The track (the only new song written for Teens of Style) feels like a self-aware reflection on the nature of this album. The images of a figure from the past who once meant a lot but is now insignificant in the life of the narrator seem to tally somewhat with the way in which the album is made up of songs taken from previous projects. Past relationships, and the hurt they have caused, are dismissed and rationalised into triviality and insignificance. The horns and the final refrain make for a strangely celebratory ending, like a forced annulment of regrets (“You probably looked like an idiot in that hat!”) in the face of a resolve to move forward. This forced, performative break with the past, however, seems only to emphasise how the wounds are still very much open, just as the songs here, despite their pre-dating of the album itself, lose none of their emotional potency.

The chorus of OH, STARVING! is deliberately contradictory but also feels very comprehensible. The boredom of a life that seems superficially better as, opposed to a past delineated by clear highs and lows, is a recognisable feeling. Sometimes things being superficially ‘ok’ just makes you painfully aware of how far away you are from the things you really want in life, while impending pressures can obscure this, making any brief moments of solace much sweeter. In the context of the album, this also seems to imply a sense of nostalgia with regard to the events and feelings laid out in these songs. Even though this album deals with confusion, depression and heartbreak, in hindsight, the potency and simplicity of these feelings (given the separation of time between the writing and re-recording of these tracks) could almost seem preferable to the confused present. Yet, by the end of the song, Will seems to finally be able to let go. Saying “goodbye” to all his “secret files” seems almost ritualistic, like he is purging himself of the confusions of the past and moving on. I like this version of the song best because of the moment, at the very end, when the delicate piano chords and doo-wop harmonies are replaced by raw, shredding guitars and a single voice singing “goodbye” so distortedly the word is almost incomprehensible. The raw power of this moment seems to work up a head of steam, like an exorcism of the kinks and bruises of the past, in favour of something.

There isn’t Car Seat Headrest album I’ve heard that I don’t love. However, I think Teens of Style undoubtedly ranks among the best of them. It might just be one of my favourite albums of all time. It does lack the conceptual charge that powers Twin Fantasy, Monomania, Teens of Denial and even, to some extent, How to Leave Town. However, despite their lack of a heavy overarching theme, these songs flow together really well. The album feels cohesive thanks to its spring-reverbed production aesthetic (which reminds me of being indoors on a hot summer day) and the smaller themes that recur throughout (resentment of the past, confusion in the present, getting signed to a major indie label). The tweaks to the lyrics of many of these songs make the creative intent yet more apparent.

I also think this album definitely does not negate the albums from which these songs are taken. I love Monomania and My Back is Killing Me Baby and, if you haven’t listened to them you should definitely do so right now! There are bunch of essential songs on both albums that are not on this one (‘father, flesh in rags,’ ‘Souls,’ ‘happy news for sadness,’ ‘Sleeping with Strangers,’ I could go on…). However, for me, the songs on this album benefit from being recontextualised and, in certain cases, from being rerecorded. It’s great to be able to experience the stronger standalone songs from these previous records in the context of album that lets them breathe a little more, outside of context. 

The most obvious example is ‘Los Barrachos’ which I think works amazingly well as the climactic track for this album. On Monomania, placed somewhere in the middle, it felt more like a just another rung in the downward spiral of heartbreak. On Teens of Style, it has room to breathe and can finally reach its full potential. Similarly, ‘Maud Gone’ benefits hugely from its re-recording. The crisp yet bedraggled sound palette of the new version feels much more fitting than the original and, in the context of a more emotionally diverse album, the catharsis it brings is more powerful (especially coming after ‘Strangers’).

Teens of Style might be made up moments from the past, but it more than proves its worth as a cohesive album that is great in its own right.

I miss those good old boys They could still find joy in life to talk about

—los barrachos

Clover for the song game :0?

-buildmartenjoyer

:D

Crossfire - Brandon Flowers Los Barrachos (I Don't Have Any Hope Left But The Weather Is Nice) - Car Seat Headrest Over The Hills And Far Away - Gary Moore Viva La Gloria! - Green Day Earthbound - The Accidentals Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

ezechiel 👉🏽👈🏽

eros entropic tundra - of montreal

z) eliminator junior - sonic youth

easy to love - georgia maq

commuter - equipment

holiday - weezer

i wanna sweat - car seat headrest

everybody wants to love you - japanese breakfast

los barrachos - car seat headrest

I’m afraid of forgetting any of these so self reminder:

edit the tsukki fic and add the date part

iwa fic chp4 and maybe post some chapters on here

bokuaka vampire au (started this!)

oikawa punk au 2 chapters posted already!

part 2 for stardust (at 800 words so far)

part 2 for contrition inspired by the song Los Barrachos 

iwaoi angst inspired by Beach Life In Death

start writing chapters for snowbaz punk au

reread adsom & have an outline for punk au

baking time with azi and crowley

edit: i’ll cross off each one i finish, if i can contain myself for ONCE, i won’t post the finished ones right after writing them.

Last month my sister and I drove all the way from California, where I was finishing college, to my home in Kentucky. On the way, we stopped at many landmarks and national parks, and each day we selected a few songs that we felt represented that day. This is the resulting playlist.

Day 1: California/Joshua Tree

1 Los Barrachos (I Don't Have Any Hope Left, But the Weather is Nice) - Car Seat Headrest 2 Speedway at Nazareth - Mark Knopfler 3 Where The Streets Have No Name - Remastered - U2 4 Highwomen - The Highwomen 5 I-94 W (832 Mi) - Car Seat Headrest 6 Shenandoah - Paul Robeson

Day 2: Arizona/Grand Canyon

7 Route 66 - Chuck Berry 8 Susie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival 9 Big Country - Instrumental - Béla Fleck 10 Parking Lot Pirouette - Amanda Shires 11 Next Go 'Round - Old Crow Medicine Show

Day 3: Arizona/Painted Desert

12 Take It Easy - 2013 Remaster - Eagles 13 Hope the High Road - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit 14 455 Rocket (Revival Outtake) - Gillian Welch 15 Moving - John Fullbright 16 America - Simon & Garfunkel 17 Kentucky, 1988 - Kelsey Waldon

Day 4: Colorado/Mesa Verde

18 Illegal Smile - John Prine 19 You're Running Wild - The Louvin Brothers 20 Going Down the Road Carrying a Load of Heartaches - Rusty Kershaw 21 Shades - The Devil Makes Three 22 Unwed Fathers (feat. Margo Price) - John Prine

Day 5: New Mexico/Santa Fe

23 Dissect the Bird (Live) - John Craigie 24 Snowin' On Raton - Townes Van Zandt 25 Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel 26 D.B. Cooper - Todd Snider

Day 6: Texas/Oklahoma

27 Sweet Amarillo - Old Crow Medicine Show 28 Tennessee Bound - Old Crow Medicine Show 29 Cotton Fields - Creedence Clearwater Revival 30 My Oklahoma Home - Bruce Springsteen 31 All the Time In the World - John Fullbright 32 So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust) - Woody Guthrie

Day 7: Arkansas/Memphis

33 Arkansas Traveller - Square Peg Rounders 34 Tom Ames' Prayer - Steve Earle 35 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan 36 Child of the Mississippi - Old Crow Medicine Show 37 Ginseng Sullivan - Norman Blake

Day 8: Nashville/Home

38 East Nashville Skyline - Todd Snider 39 Darkness - Pinegrove 40 Eight More Miles To Louisville - Grandpa Jones 41 My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight - John Prine

(Since you liked car seat headrest (which by the way I’m thrilled you do!!! I wasn’t sure how you’d feel) some other songs I’d recommend are ‘unforgiving girl’, ‘los barracho’, ‘fill in the blank’ and ‘oh! starve’) (also I love you and it makes my day that you’ve liked the songs. I made a playlist of your song recs and it’s all so soft I love)💕💕💕

i love you!! and your songs! i put all of those on the playlist and i just hit shuffle to enjoy your wonderful taste in tunes. also that makes me so soft that you made a playlist of my song recs i’m 🥺🥺

ooh yes recs please <3

ok ok idk what you’ve listened to so far but if you like beach life in death then definitely check out the rest of twin fantasy if you haven’t already, it’s arguably their technical ‘best’ album. i strongly recommend listening to that one straight through cover to cover but some of my favorites right now are my boy, cute thing, and famous prophets (stars). heavy on that last one if you’re into the 10+ minute 3 act structure that beach life in death has going for it. if you like twin fantasy (face to face) you’ll probably like teens of denial - i love fill in the blank, destroyed by hippy powers, drunk drivers/killer whales, 1937 state park and the ballad of the costa concordia. if you prefer the mirror to mirror version of twin fantasy you’ll probably like teens of style - i love something soon, times to die and los barrachos. how to leave town might be my favorite album from them - i esp like the ending of dramamine, you’re in love with me, and i want you to know that i’m awake/i hope that you’re asleep. souls and anchorite off monomania are both really sad but very good. nervous young man is their longest album so it’s even harder to choose favorites but i like afterglow, jerks, the gun song, burning man and death at the movies.

fuck the police

im gonna listen to car seat headrest and father john misty at 2 am

If nobody got me I know Los Barrachos (I dont have any hope left but the weather is nice) got me