Car Seat Headrest have released their brand new song “Hollywood” today. Alongside the track release, the band has also debuted a Sabrina Nichols directed music video and an acoustic version of the track. “Hollywood” is off of their forthcoming album, Making A Door Less Open, out May 1 via Matador.
“This song is about Hollywood as a place where people go to make their fantasies come to life, and they end up exploiting other people and doing terrible things to maintain their fantasy,” says bandleader Will Toledo, whose alter ego Trait appears in the video in animated form. “There’s this terror you’re going to lose the fantasy, and you’re going to have to face the facts, and some people will do anything to avoid facing that. It’s about that fear, and the pain of being subjugated to someone else’s fantasy against your will, and it’s all tied together under this banner of this physical location of Hollywood that we all know about and dream about, but none of us really want to think about what is going on behind the scenes there.”
Pre-orders for Making A Door Less Open are available for purchase here. Car Seat Headrest also announced that they have cancelled their summer tour dates due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Ticket buyers may have already gotten an email about this but our summer tour has been cancelled for the expected reasons. You can get a refund at your point of purchase. Incredibly bummed to be losing this opportunity to play. Rescheduling & alternate events TBD
— car seat headrest (@carseatheadrest) April 9, 2020
