Will Toldeo never quite seems to put his songs to rest. Choruses, guitar riffs, and codas from his extensive Bandcamp back catalog reappear in the two albums he's released as Car Seat Headrest since signing to Matador in 2015. His latest, a refurbishment of Twin Fantasy's feral track “Beach Life-in-Death,” isn't so much a smoothing-over of Toledo's original, scratchy 2011 recording as it is a reinvigoration of it.

Clocking in at 13 minutes, a minute longer than the original take, “Beach Life-in-Death” hits all the same itchy, unnerved points that Toledo usually favors in his sprawling guitar rock. Split into three distinct parts, the track nests songs within songs like a matryoshka doll of rock tropes: call-and-response vocals cave into winding guitar solos and narratives build and then collapse into desperate monologues, like when Toledo yelps, “I don’t want to go insane!” Most of the lyrics oscillate between the mundanities of staying alive—eating, sleeping, working, eating again—and the jitters of negotiating a queer identity and relationship. “It's been a year since we first met/I don't know if we're boyfriends yet,” Toledo sings tentatively. By the time he gets to a full-throated howl, though, his concerns are broader: “We said we hated humans/We wanted to be humans.” It’s a familiar existential dilemma, having to be a person when people make your skin crawl, when you make your own skin crawl all the time. On “Beach Life-in-Death” Toledo embodies it with the kind of unhinged ferocity that only fits inside three songs wrapped into one.