Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror)

Sometimes an artist has to go through more than one draft to get the desired result. Sometimes time and opportunity allow someone to have a new perspective on an older work. Sometimes the thing that didn't work the first time works better the second time. In a very real sense, all of these things do and don't apply to the revised 2018 edition of Car Seat Headrest's album Twin Fantasy. CSH top kick Will Toledo initially wrote the songs for Twin Fantasy in his late teens, and he created a home-recorded version on his laptop that he released digitally in 2011. However, Toledo later declared that he never felt it was a completed work, and in 2016, with access to a professional recording studio and the help of a full band, he re-recorded the song cycle in a manner better suiting the ambitions of the project. In both versions, Twin Fantasy is a concept album about a teenage love affair between two boys that, not unlike CSH's 2016 breakthrough, Teens of Denial, offers a painfully accurate por