Car Seat Headrest have announced “The Scholars”, their first studio album in five years, which will be out May 2nd via Matador Records. It’s an ambitious double-LP rock opera : “Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the songs on “The Scholars” are populated with students and staff whose travails illuminate a loose narrative of life, death, and rebirth,” is the album’s official log line.
The band have shared “Gethsemane” from it, an 11-minute song suite. The band say: “Rosa studies at the medical school of Parnassus University. After an experience bringing a medically deceased patient back to life, she begins to regain powers suppressed since childhood, of healing others by absorbing their pain. Each night, instead of dreams, she encounters the raw pain and stories of the souls she touches throughout the day. Reality blurs, and she finds herself taken deep into secret facilities buried beneath the medical school, where ancient beings that covertly reign over the college bring forth their dark plans.”
You can absorb all that via the song’s equally epic music video, which was directed by Andrew Wonder and you can check out below.
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