I like American Football (the band) does anyone else?

i think it's a way of saying, "people will use the word emo here in speech, whatever emo is anymore." m.

Sorry about the bump, but i think the one american football album is noteworthy enough to excuse it. I love it, and Owen makes amazing music as well. I just wish there was more american football

i reeealy liked their album at the time. Been quite a while since i've given it a listen, though.

It sort of fits into the type of music I was listening to back then.

This album was my jam. I should listen to it again.

wow, did not think these guys would have another album in 'em

Pretty excited about the new album. Saw them play last year and it was a bit of a weird one, hearing those songs played by an active band rather than them just being a recorded document of something long gone. They were great. My copy of the new Owen LP finally turned up yesterday so it was a good Kinsella-related day for me.

At first I was hugely disappointed in the new record. There was no 'The Summer Ends' or 'For Sure' but I kept listening and now it sounds like warm soup on a cold day. I really love it.

LPII is Owen as played by American Football and that is more than fine with me.

How would you rate Owen's records? I stopped listening after 'At Home.'

I can understand why you stopped with 'At Home...' but the subsequent ones are good. 'Other People's Songs' is a good fun diversion, 'L'Amour...' I thought was excellent and 'The King of Whys' is very good, just overshadowed by the existence of AFII.

My preference will always probably be slightly for everything up to '(the EP)', but overall I think it's a good, solid, consistent catalogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B47-MVjcB4

new album has a hayley williams feature which. omg

holy shit these dudes love steve reich

Apparently Rachel Goswell guests as well. I like that track, wasn't familiar with their 1999 emo debut.

new album has a hayley williams feature which. omg

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out today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCP2Lh2L5Ac

this album is going to be amazing

that song in particular nails the feeling of driving through miles of nothing while listening to ... red house painters? yeah

so i'd never actually listened to these guys til silhouettes, and i loved that song so much that i went back and listened to the debut, and loved THAT so much that i listened 10x straight.

Gorgeous. Hope this signals a big old American Football / Land of Talk tour

Agreed. After her time away, hope for many more LoT releases to come.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/700793122/first-listen-american-football-american-football-lp3

i kinda think the first album is overrated so this is absolutely my favorite american football record

Yes it's very good. It kinda sounds like the alt universe version of the Copeland album I'm actually down with.

the lyrics are earnest to the point of goofy sometimes but... i like that

cf.

selfishness is inherited
so what could i do
i didn't catch it kissing jenny in the closet
i didn't learn it at school

yeah the lyrics are good, straightforward and confessional but not outright oversharing/gross/uncomfortable

this is just the right amount of old school emo magic for me. also lovely production.

I'm into it.

heir apparent, holy crap. losing it at the flute and piano.

i'll make new friends
in the ambulance

and a fucking children's chorus, there's not a single wink to the camera in this whole album and it's great

otm

i think my favorites are "heir apparent" and "mine to miss" but every song here is so rich

i still can't figure out where they found the time to become an actual band. this album is incredibly well-realized, detailed, and thoughtful.

Just finishing up my first listen and this feels like a proper American Football Album, rather than Owen as Played by American Football (which I was fine with).

Really beautiful stuff.

really like the slightly expanded instrumentation on this album, quite possibly better than the debut

I really liked this but vaguely suspicious of how easy it slipped down. Would have been happy for some glass in the bolus or a crescendo.

Has this completely drifted by? Stumbled on it today and it's really working; what I had considered to be (pejoratively) becalmed resignation feels directional and apposite. I think I'm here for the long haul.

I've listened to this again recently, it's probably my favourite album of 2019.

Yup, up there with me, too. Side purchase, this cool Luke Martin AF tour poster.

That is a dope poster!

The AF album was my favorite of last year. Recently picked up all the Owen albums I was missing, and finding them perfect housebound music. _L'ami du Peuple_ playing now. Pre-ordered the new album, The Avalanche, off Polyvinyl. Now just have to wait for it and new Land of Talk albums to arrive, and that's 20% of my 2020 Top 10 likely solved.

https://youtu.be/NWvia4_n69M

lp3 is a masterpiece