The nearly eight-minute journey that songwriter and Car Seat Headrest singer Will Toledo takes listeners on in "Vincent" reminds me in tone and execution of Television's seminal 1977 song "Marquee Moon," but better. The song's liftoff takes over two minutes, filled with guitar hammering and harmonics, building tension before the drums and bass kick in. It's a song filled with stream-of-consciousness indecision, lines like, "Half the time I want to go home, and half the time I want to go home" next to reflections on the whining of tourists in Toledo's colonial college town. His indecision and depression is summed up well when he sings, "In the back of a medicine cabinet, you can find your life story"

Vincent's namesake is Vincent Van Gogh, who is injected in the song when Toledo sings:

"They got a portrait by Van Gogh

On the Wikipedia page

For clinical depression.

Well, it helps to describe it"

From there, the song propels itself into a world of self-doubt, with a bit of Holden Caulfield-type cynicism in the mix. A sad, brilliant journey, lyrically and musically. --Bob Boilen