Car Seat Headrest have shared another selection from their forthcoming new studio album, a self-described rock opera entitled The Scholars. “CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)” follows lead single “Gethsemane,” and is accompanied by an animated music video featuring cartoons by Cate Wurtz. Watch it below.
Explaining the song in a press statement, the band write: “Beolco is a student of Parnassus University, a college founded in ages past by a famed playwright known as the Scop. Beolco is deeply fond of both the college and the Scop, believing himself to be spiritually connected or reincarnated from the playwright. He yearns for confirmation of this secret belief.”
The proper follow-up to 2020’s Making a Door Less Open, The Scholars is out May 2 via Matador. Following the record’s release, Car Seat Headrest will embark on a brief headlining tour of the U.S., including stops at Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party and New York City’s Governors Ball music festivals.
Read about Car Seat Headrest’s 2016 album Twin Fantasy at No. 127 on “The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s.”