Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars

Released 2nd May 2025

Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the songs onThe Scholarsare populated with students and staff whose travails illuminate a loose narrative of life, death, and rebirth. Inspired by an apocryphal poem by "Archbishop Guillermo Guadalupe del Toledo," and featuring character designs from Toledos friend, the cartoonist Cate Wurtz, the first half of the album focuses on the deep yearning and spiritual crisis of the titular Scholars. They range from the tortured and doubt-filled young playwright Beolco to Devereaux, a person born to religious conservatives who finds themselves desperate for higher guidance. The second part features a series of epics detailing the clash between the defenders of the classic texts and the young person who doesn't care about the canon, who is going to tear all of that up, basically, Toledo says. And so within this one campus, there becomes a war. Fro