Automotive Seat Headrest are again with their first new album in 5 years: The Students, a self-described rock opera, is out Could 2 through Matador. Along with tour dates, Will Toledo and his bandmates have additionally unveiled an 11-minute, multi-part track titled “Gethsemane” and its accompanying music video, directed by Andrew Marvel. Watch the clip for the sprawling new track beneath.
Set on the fictional school campus Parnassus College, The Students focuses on a special scholar or workers member on every track to inform tales of life, demise, and rebirth. “Gethsemane” follows Rosa, a medical faculty scholar who revives a deceased affected person by absorbing their ache, an influence she’s been suppressing since childhood. “Every evening, as an alternative of desires, she encounters the uncooked ache and tales of the souls she touches all through the day,” defined Toledo. “Actuality blurs, and she or he finds herself taken deep into secret services buried beneath the medical faculty, the place historical beings that covertly reign over the school carry forth their darkish plans.”
Automotive Seat Headrest will carry their follow-up to 2020’s Making a Door Much less Open on the street after they tour the US this 12 months. The band has spaced out the 9 reveals with comparatively lengthy gaps between every one, starting on Could 16, in Salt Lake Metropolis, and ending on November 1, in Oakland—partly resulting from Toledo’s well being following a extreme response to COVID-19 years in the past. Discover Automotive Seat Headrest’s full checklist of tour dates beneath.
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The Students:
01 CCF (I’m Gonna Keep With You)
02 Devereaux
03 Girl Homosexual Roughly
04 The Disaster (Good Luck With That, Man)
05 Equals
06 Gethsemane
07 Actuality
08 Planet Desperation
09 True/False Lover
Automotive Seat Headrest:
05-16 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – Kilby Block Get together
06-07 Queens, NY – Governors Ball Music Competition 2025
06-28 Washington, D.C. – The Anthem
07-12 Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
07-26 Chicago, IL – Salt Shed (Fairgrounds)
08-08 Los Angeles, CA – The Greek
09-12 Philadelphia, PA – Highmark Skyline on the Mann
09-27 Boston, MA – MGM Music Corridor
11-01 Oakland, CA – The Fox
