American Football: American Football (LP3) - CASSETTES
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Title: American Football (LP3)
Artist: American Football
Label: Polyvinyl Records
Product Type: CASSETTES
UPC: 644110037442
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2019-03-22
Number of Discs: 1
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. - Fifteen 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. - 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 it's 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. - The album also features Hayley Williams from Paramore on the album's catchiest moment, 'Uncomfortably Numb', and Elizabeth Powell, of the Québécoise act Land Of Talk. Mike wrote lyrics in French especially for her. - LP3 is contemplative, rich, expressive, yet with a queasy undercurrent. It is heavy with expectancy, revealing it's 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.
Tracks:
1.1 Silhouettes
1.2 Every Wave to Ever Rise (Feat. Elizabeth Powell)
1.3 Uncomfortably Numb (Feat. Hayley Williams)
1.4 Heir Apparent
1.5 Doom in Full Bloom
1.6 I Can't Feel You (Feat. Rachel Goswell)
1.7 Mine to Miss
1.8 Life Support
American Football: American Football (LP3) - CASSETTES
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Artist: American Football
Label: Polyvinyl Records
Product Type: CASSETTES
UPC: 644110037442
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2019-03-22
Number of Discs: 1
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. - Fifteen 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. - 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 it's 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. - The album also features Hayley Williams from Paramore on the album's catchiest moment, 'Uncomfortably Numb', and Elizabeth Powell, of the Québécoise act Land Of Talk. Mike wrote lyrics in French especially for her. - LP3 is contemplative, rich, expressive, yet with a queasy undercurrent. It is heavy with expectancy, revealing it's 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.
Tracks:
1.1 Silhouettes
1.2 Every Wave to Ever Rise (Feat. Elizabeth Powell)
1.3 Uncomfortably Numb (Feat. Hayley Williams)
1.4 Heir Apparent
1.5 Doom in Full Bloom
1.6 I Can't Feel You (Feat. Rachel Goswell)
1.7 Mine to Miss
1.8 Life Support
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