Will Toledo reimagines his 2016 indie classic for its 10th anniversary. In 2016, Car Seat Headrest released Teens of Denial, an album whose mix of catchy-casual indie-rock anthems (think The Strokes or early Weezer) and biting, philosophical lyrics satisfied one ideal of what indie rock can be: music that makes losers sound, for a glorious and fleeting moment, like heroes. In some ways, the project’s architect, Will Toledo, was a new face in a long line of highly sensitive songwriters and bandleaders—from The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson to Big Star’s Alex Chilton to Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo—who found a portal to the divine in the simple geometry of a pop song. But he also seemed distinctly like a product of his time, a chronic oversharer who posted his way through personal crises and never missed an opportunity for self-deprecation. That he could make his characters’ failures feel like jokes only underscored the tragedy of their circumstances: They were screwed from the start, ha ha ha. Toledo has reimagined music from his back catalog a handful of times, most notably Twin Fantasy, which he recorded first as a college student in 2011 and again in 2018 with a full band. But he’s never taken as subtly dramatic a look at his old material as the 10th anniversary of Teens of Denial. Some of the changes are minor, if noticeable to anyone who loved the originals (expanding the trumpet part in “Vincent,” taking out the eternally memorable “walking piece of shit” line on “Drugs with Friends,” alongside all other four-letter words). Others are more dramatic, including replacing two old songs with entirely new ones—“Optimistic Son” and “Joe Drives Again”—and picking off parts of “The Ballad of the Costa Concordia” to make the climactic “The Ravenous House.” The decade between Teens and Teen—a title change meant to reflect the new emphasis on the original’s sort-of protagonist, Joe—revealed Toledo to be a true eccentric, the kind of guy who emerges from personal darkness with an almost mystical if sometimes baffling sense of purpose. Would that all losers got the same redemption.