American Football has shared two new singles, available digitally now and on 10" vinyl on June 10, 2022 (Polyvinyl). The "Rare Symmetry" / "Fade Into You" are the last recordings with founding member and drummer/trumpeter Steve Lamos, who left the band on amicable terms earlier this year.
"Fade To You" is a cover of the 1990s hit by Mazzy Star and features guest vocals from Miya Folick.
American Football last released LP3 in 2019.
Pictured: Live in 1998
American Football are the sort of band that shouldn't have attracted so much attention. When they first properly emerged in 1999, a copy of their eponymous debut in hand, they were still playing small college bars around the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their album cover was so low-key it should have been unremarkable, depicting the darkened exterior of a … Read more
Much like the recently-reunited Owls, the unfortunately short-lived American Football was a group formed from the remnants of seminal Midwest-based 1990s emo band Cap’n Jazz (whose members went on to form a seemingly endless number of great bands). Unlike Owls who set about making rhythmic post-punk however, American Football’s lineup of Mike Kinsella (guitar, bass, vocals), Steve Lamos (drums, trumpet), … Read more
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