Car Seat Headrest Making a Door Less Open [Slipcase] *

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n immersive and adventurous album that sounds polished, but never slick, a well-executed experiment in cross-genre pollination that heightens Toledo's best songwriting impulses."
Billboard - "The songs are shorter but denser, a melding of driving guitar rock and euphoric EDM, with unexpected flourishes that range from white-boy hip-hop to prog rock."
4 stars out of 5 -- "There are EDM wobbles on the atonal 'Hymn', while closers 'Famous' draws on glassy hip-hop production."
Paste (magazine) - "MAKING A DOOR LESS OPEN is going in a drastically different direction, with songs that refuse to peg the album to a genre and with the debut of Toledo's alter-ego Trait as the newfound ringleader of the band."
Pitchfork (Website) - "Car Seat Headrest has never operated with the level of showmanship displayed here. The whirring synths and electronics sound more like walk-on music for the mighty septet that held its own at Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl."
Clash (Magazine) - "Toledo's always fooled around with obscurity and candour -- heartfelt words half-hidden in the fuzzy clouds of self-conscious lo-fi -- and this is no different."