American Football's New Album is Out Today

Today, American Football celebrate the release of their critically acclaimed new album, American Football (LP3), out now on Polyvinyl Record Co. This spring and summer the band will tour North America with support from Illuminati Hotties, Pure Bathing Culture, and Tomberlin, and will also perform at Fuji Rock Japan, Form Arcosanti, Santa Teresa Music and Arts Festival, and this weekend at Treefort Music Festival. All upcoming tour dates, including a just announced second show at The Warsaw in Brooklyn this May, are below.

American Football, whose songwriting has been so influential to a generation of musicians, raised the stakes on the writing and recording of their third effort under the American Football moniker, and it shows. The band break new ground sonically, and explore new voices too. "Familiar without submitting to nostalgia," writes The FADER, "it's a fresh faced and dew-dropped introduction into a new chapter of American Football."

LP3 is contemplative, rich, expressive, yet with a queasy undercurrent. It is heavy with expectancy, revealing its ideas slowly, eliciting the hidden stories people carry around with them. "I feel like my lyric writing has changed a lot over the years," says Mike. "The goal is to be conversational, maybe to state something giant and heavy, but in a very plain way. But, definitely in this record, I keep things a little more vague." As on the first album, the lyrics on LP3 may seem confessional and concentrated, but the more you scrutinize them, the further their meaning slinks away. Or, as Mike tellingly sings on "I Can't Feel You": I'm fluent in subtlety.

"Somewhere along the way we moved from being a reunion band to just being a band," says Steve Holmes. American Football is now a bona fide ongoing focus, and they are making some of the best music of their lives. American Football (LP3) stands with two other rare reunion successes - Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine's mbv - as a fine example of how a band refinding one another can augment, rather than taint, their legacy.

American Football is Steve Holmes (guitar), Mike Kinsella (vocals, guitar), Nate Kinsella (bass), and Steve Lamos (drums, trumpet).

www.americanfootballmusic.com

American Football (LP3) Track Listing:

1. Silhouettes
2. Every Wave To Ever Rise (ft. Elizabeth Powell)
3. Uncomfortably Numb (ft. Hayley Williams)
4. Heir Apparent
5. Doom In Full Bloom
6. I Can't Feel You (ft. Rachel Goswell)
7. Mine To Miss
8. Life Support

Photo Credit: Atiba Jefferson

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