American Football
The dazzling third album from the stalwarts of Midwestern emo does away with the band’s self-mythology and takes bleary, bold steps toward a new dawn.
Coming after a 17-year hiatus, the second LP by American Football* *might be the most highly anticipated emo album ever made.
A few stray guitar notes, some studio chatter, a drummer trying out some fills—these inauspicious sounds begin American Football’s classic self-titled debut from 1999, a landmark album that spawned countless emo bands that paled in comparison.
A four-star review of American Football's 2019 self-titled album, released March 22 via Polyvinyl / Big Scary Monsters.
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After releasing their reunion album in 2016, the members of American Football started trading song ideas and demos back and forth and realized their sound had evolved.
American Football build on their distinct craft for creating odd pop songs and multi-minute epics on their third album.
American Football's inherent synergy hasn't aged a bit in the last 17 years; their control is immaculate, their romanticism timeless.
American Football are a product of their time and place. Their debut self-titled LP cemented the short-lived band's reputation amongst emo a...
The second eponymous American Football record is by no means a carbon-copy of the first, but the Illinois band seem to have done everything...
Die hard American Football fans, starved of a second album for 15 years, might end up wishing that LP3 took a similar length of time to come to fruition, but here we are.
Twenty years ago, American Football, a trio of college students then located in Urbana, Illinois, released their debut self-titled album, American Football, and restructured the path that emo rock would take for the following decades.
American Football’s legacy, arguably, exists in a series of vacuums. When the emo quartet debuted way back in 1997 from the dregs of many other high
17 years since the US cult emo, post-rock band's first album, American Football return
'American Football' by American Football, album review by Gregory Adams. the full-length cones out on October 21st via Polyvinyl Records.
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