American Football - American Football (LP3) [BLUE VINYL] (LP)

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* INDIES ONLY *

American Football'€™s original triumph, on their 1999 self-titled debut, was to reunite two shy siblings: emo and post-rock. It was a pioneering album where lyrical clarity was obscured and complicated by the stealth musical textures surrounding it. Like Slint'€™s Spiderland, or Codeine'€™s The White Birch, even Talk Talk's Laughing Stock, American Football asked far more questions than it cared to answer. But there wasn'€™t a band around anymore to explain it, anyway. The three young men who made the album -€“ Mike Kinsella, Steve Holmes, and Steve Lamos -€“ split up pretty much on its release.

15 years later, American Football reunited (now as a four-piece, with the addition of Nate Kinsella). They played far larger shows than in their original incarnation and recorded their long-anticipated second album, 2016'€™s American Football (LP2). The release was widely praised, but the band members still felt like their best work was yet to come. "€˜I feel like the second album was us figuring it out,"€™ says Nate. "€˜For me, it wasn'€™t quite done. I knew there was still more."

Enter American Football (LP3)..

"We put a lot of time and a lot of energy into it,"€™ says Mike. "€˜We were all thoughtful about what we wanted to put out there. Last time, it was figuring out how to use all of our different arms. This time, we were like -€“ 'Ok we have these arms, let'€™s use them."'€™ The band used the same producer, Jason Cupp, and recorded the album at the same studio (Arc Studios in Omaha, Nebraska) as its predecessor -€“ yet they approached it in a markedly different way. There was a determination to let the songs breathe, to trust in ideas finding their own pace. The final result is a definite, and deliberate, stretching of the band.

This limited edition LP format is pressed on blue marbled coloured vinyl, and is only available through independent shops such as ourselves.

- LP
- BLUE MARBLE VINYL