New Music: CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)

             

On May 2nd, Car Seat Headrest will release The Scholars, a bold new rock opera and the band's first studio album in five years. The Seattle-based band shares the record's soaring, uplifting opener "CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)." About the track, it was Inspired by an apocryphal poem by "Archbishop Guillermo Guadalupe del Toledo," and featuring character designs from Toledo's friend, the cartoonist Cate Wurtz, the album focuses on the yearning and spiritual crisis of the titular Scholars. They range from the doubt-filled playwright Beolco to Devereaux, a person born to religious conservatives who finds themselves desperate for higher guidance. Meanwhile, the music draws, carefully, from classic rock story song cycles such as The Who’s Tommy and David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.