Rediscovering my love for sanders sides, and now having the skillset to draw the sides the way I wanted to back when I first discovered them, is one of the best feelings Iāve ever had with my art
Drew this with the purple crayon from the halloween pack </3
you can't talk abt Joe's story without talking about how it removes the swearing. which is a shame because the album has more going on than that. but also its such a distracting and awful change that its impossible to ignore
from asherwilliams27 and notcarseatheadrest via instagram
transcriptions under the cut
thanks to @milolovesbmc and @maddelyns-bo for the help
Letter on the left:
Hello.
To thank you for your support of Car Seat Headrest, we're sending you something new (and old) from the band that hasn't been announced yet. This is "Teen of Denial Joe's Story," a new recording from the same world as Teens of Denial to commemorate the original group's 10th anniversary this month. Some things will sound familiar, but you'll notice some changes too. You'll find along with a CD copy of Teen of Denial Joe's Story, a note written by Will Toledo providing some context on the new project.
Feel free to post this CD online, tagging Car Seat Headrest and Matador, to make everyone jealous. If you have anything else CSH related from your archives, we would love to see that too. Either by sharing on social media or sending to Matador directly via [email protected]
Thank you.
Matador Records
Second letter transcription in progress!!!! be patient
Sometime last year it was suggested to me that we do something for the ten-year anniversary of Teens of Denial, so I started looking back on the albums to see what we might do. In spite of some of the songs being a regular part of my life for the [???] [???]. It wasn't a record I'd thought much about as a whole since it came out. Most of the songs I'd come up with over a two-year period at the end of my college days. When I was struggling a lot with symbolism and misplaced aggression. But by the time these songs were done, I was living in Washington, Car Seat Headrest was a full band with a record label, and in spite of the turmoil of this writing process the final album was really enjoyable for everyone to work on.
This time, looking back at the songs, I started to think there was a story being told through the album, though I'd never imagined it as being a narrative work. On *Hi, How Are You?* Daniel Johnston has used the name "Joe" in the titles of a few tracks - "No More Pushing Joe Around." "Keep Punching Joe" - as a sort of joke, a stand-in for himself. I borrowed the idea, and the name, for titling songs on *Denial*. This time, I started thinking - who is Joe? And how do the songs, in the way they're sequenced in the album, reflect what he's going through? As I started asking this question, a story emerged with startling wholeness and clarity, like finding the foundation of an ancient city whole digging in my backyard. As I kept digging, certain songs from the original album fell by the wayside, as they seemed misplaced in this new context; others asked for new lyrics to fully give birth to the story contained in the music.
yousharknotpass
tangentwithtanner
gamechangershow
gummygunk
