Sun Ra - A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (Vinyl) CDE16/04/25 Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo

Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo pulled from the classics when devising the lyrics and story arc of ‘The Scholars

Light Places

Their third full-length feels massive and oceanic

And it all comes at a key time and place

stands as a true masterpiece by one of music’s most mysterious

Sun Ra - A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (Vinyl) CDE16/04/25 Car Seat Headrest’s Will ToledoThe key track on this rare 1980s recording sees Sun Ra warning the inhabitants of planet Earth about the threat of nuclear war and its ultimately apocalyptic effect. Nuclear War is based on a call and response gospel chorus with Ra in the role as an interstellar preacher, raging against the nuclear war machine with a repetitive chanted expletive (think MC5!) that decades later still sounds shocking. Later released as a 12 on UK label Y, Nuclear War