Car Seat Headrest - The ScholarsSet 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. Inspired by an apocryphal poem by "Archbishop Guillermo Guadalupe del Toledo," and featuring character designs from Toledos friend, the cartoonist Cate Wurtz, the first half of the album focuses on the deep yearning and spiritual crisis of the titular

Across eight tracks that mesh spacious

Moebius seems to be avoiding improvisation as the devil keeps his distance from holy water

idealistic songwriter coming to terms with her genius for cutting to the chase

March 16-20

Is always something new” (Paul Morley

The guests on the album are an amazing array of musicians

a place of beauty and danger

It’ll sit perfectly on your shelf between Alice Coltrane and Hiroshi Yoshimura

and Swami Satchidananda provides narration

an all-female vocal group that utilizes traditional Afro-Colombian music to preserve their history and promote peace

Includes 3 CDs of unreleased material

Jeremy Steig - Howling For Judy