Automotive Seat Headrest is again. The Will Toledo-led indie rock outfit has formally introduced a brand new album referred to as The Students, which is about for launch on Could 2nd through Matador data. Moreover, the band unveiled a string of latest 2025 United States tour dates and a music video for the lead single “Gethsemane.”
The Students is the primary full-length effort from Automotive Seat Headrest since 2020’s Making a Door Much less Open. An idea file set on the fictional school campus of Parnassus College, the brand new album follows the protagonist Rosa as she navigates the surreal happenings of PU. Pre-orders for the album are ongoing.
“After an expertise bringing a medically deceased affected person again to life, she begins to regain powers suppressed since childhood of therapeutic others by absorbing their ache,” the band defined in a press release. “Every evening, as a substitute of goals, she encounters the uncooked ache and tales of the souls she touches all through the day. Actuality blurs, and he or she finds herself taken deep into secret services buried beneath the medical faculty, the place historical beings that covertly reign over the school deliver forth their darkish plans.”
“Gethsemane,” the primary single from The Students, is a multi-part epic that stands at 11-minutes in size. Dynamic and propulsive, the tune comes together with a black and white music video that matches the music’s sprawling nature. Watch the music video for “Gethsemane” beneath.
Come the discharge of The Students, Automotive Seat Headrest will embark on a U.S. headlining tour. After making appearances at Kilby Block Celebration and Governors Ball respectively, the run will kick off on June twenty eighth in Washington D.C. From there, the band will play cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and extra. See the complete listing of Automotive Seat Headrest’s upcoming live shows beneath.
Tickets for Automotive Seat Headrest’s 2025 tour will first go on sale through an artist pre-sale on Wednesday, March fifth at 10:00 a.m. native time. The general public on-sale will then observe on Friday, March seventh, additionally at 10:00 a.m. native time through Ticketmaster.
Although it’s been about 5 years since Automotive Seat Headrest final launched a brand new album, the band hasn’t been fully silent. In 2023, they launched the reside album Faces from the Masquerade, and that very same yr the band lined Dying Cab for Cutie’s “We Appeared Like Giants.” Revisit our evaluation of Automotive Seat Headrest’s Making a Door Much less Open.
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