Automotive Seat Headrest Plot Go back With New Rock Opera, ‘The Students’

Virginia indie-rock outfit Automotive Seat Headrest are making their grand go back with an much more grandiose document, saying new rock opera The Students as their drawing close LP.

The brand new document will arrive on Might 2 by way of Matador, arriving precisely 5 years and sooner or later since their ultimate studio free up, Creating a Door Much less Open. In line with a press free up, the narrative of the nine-track LP is about on the fictional school campus Parnassus College, that specialize in “scholars and team of workers whose travails light up a free narrative of existence, loss of life, and rebirth.”

The drawing close document is previewed by means of the discharge of 11-minute unmarried “Gethsemane,” which itself is accompanied by means of an Andrew Surprise-directed visible.

“Rosa research on the clinical faculty of Parnassus College,” the band explains of the lead unmarried. “After an revel in bringing a medically deceased affected person again to existence, she starts to regain powers suppressed since early life, of therapeutic others by means of soaking up their ache. Each and every night time, as an alternative of desires, she encounters the uncooked ache and tales of the souls she touches all over the day. Fact blurs, and he or she unearths herself taken deep into secret amenities buried underneath the clinical faculty, the place historic beings that covertly reign over the varsity deliver forth their darkish plans.”

First shaped in 2010 as a solo venture of frontman Will Toledo, Automotive Seat Headrest shared a handful of self-released data prior to signing to Matador and increasing to a full-band setup in 2015. 

2018’s Dual Fable (Face to Face) served because the band’s step forward, turning into their first (and up to now, best) album to chart inside the most sensible part of the Billboard 200, achieving No. 92. It additionally charted inside the most sensible 5 of the Impartial and Selection Albums charts, and reached No. 11 at the Best Rock Albums. Their newest free up, 2020’s Creating a Door Much less Open, hit No. 184 at the Billboard 200 and reached No. 22 at the Impartial Albums chart.

The discharge of The Students places to relaxation a prolonged length of creativity and traveling for Automotive Seat Headrest, who had totally supposed to go back quicker with new track. On the other hand, the have an effect on of lengthy COVID necessitated the cancellation of excursion dates, and the downtime Toledo skilled in consequence resulted in a “determination to following religious practices,” which informs the brand new album.

Automotive Seat Headrest can be launching a sequence of North American excursion dates following the discharge in their new document, with 9 displays these days scheduled between Might and November.

Automotive Seat Headrest 2025 Excursion Dates

Might 16 – Kilby Block Birthday party, Salt Lake Town, UT
June 7 – Governors Ball, New York, NY
June 28 – The Anthem, Washington  DC
July 12 – Undertaking Ballroom, Denver, CO
July 26 – Salt Shed, Chicago IL
Aug. 8 – The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Sept. 12 – Highmark Skyline on the Mann Middle Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 27 – MGM Song Corridor, Boston MA
Nov. 1 – The Fox, Oakland CA