Will Toledo (Car Seat Headrest): 9/27/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

At 24, Will Toledo is the lead singer-songwriter for one of this summer's hottest bands, Car Seat Headrest. He's also the youngest guest to ever be on The Moment. Today, Will talks about how he thinks about structuring an album (6:00), trying not to repeat the narrative of his predecessors (14:00), and how he receives feedback for his songs (28:30). Plus, Will and Brian discuss the wide audience Car Seat Headrest is reaching with its new album (37:00) and why it's important for artists to shape their own work rather than be shaped by their audience (41:30). And on a final note, Will is already working on the next album and he's thinking it may be a little different (55:00). You can check out Car Seat Headrest's latest release, Teens of Denial, by clicking here. Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Twitter: @BrianKoppelman Leave a Review: itunes.com/themoment The Moment is brought to you by Blue Apron. For less than 10 dollars per meal, Blue Apron delivers meal kits right to your door to make cooking at home easy. Get your first THREE meals FREE by going to BlueApron.com/MOMENT. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.3	Hey, this is the moment, I'm Brian Koppelman.
0:12.3	Thanks for listening. My guest today is the youngest person to ever be on this show, the moment.
0:18.0	And is somebody who's at, even though you've been at this a while, you're 23, right?
0:22.0	24 now
0:23.0	congratulations a month happy birthday thank you
0:25.9	you've been making music for a long time will is the lead singer
0:29.6	songwriter producer i know you didn't produce the new album all by yourself but of my favorite
0:35.8	band car seat headrest. Oh thank you. Do you consider it a band a band? I mean it is it's
0:41.2	always been just you right? I guess I call it a project overall, but in its current form, it's definitely a band. It's me and three other guys and has been for the past, over a year now now so it's a band. So yeah you were asking me but you do
0:56.9	write everything and and in the original form you play everything that's right
1:01.2	yeah yeah I mean the Te of denial, which is our newest record. I had everything demoed out beforehand and then took it in to sort of be
1:09.8	workhopped by the band for recording. I wasn't planning.
1:13.0	Do arrangements change?
1:14.0	Did arrangements change when that happened at all?
1:15.9	Or is it just something exemplify?
1:17.3	They absolutely filled in their own parts and there were parts on the record where, you know,
1:22.1	after it was finished I'd listen to it and
1:23.8	kind of hear it for the first time and I was like wow that's never happened with
1:28.5	the car seat address record for me before so that was cool and there were there were definitely parts that changed once we were
1:35.3	playing them as a band and the song Cosmic Hero actually kind of developed as a band that was one that I hadn't
1:42.0	demoed out beforehand but we worked out together.
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