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The three young men who made the album – Mike Kinsella, Steve Holmes, and Steve Lamos – split up pretty much on its release.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLP3 is less obviously tethered to the band’s past than the second album. An immediate contrast between LP3 and its two predecessors is its cover. The two previous albums featured the exterior and interior of a residence in the band’s original hometown of Urbana, Illinois (now attracting fans for pilgrimages and photo opportunities), by the photographer Chris Strong. But American Football knew that LP3 was an outside record. Instead of the familiar house, this time the cover photo (again by Strong) features open, rolling fields on Urbana’s borders. It is a sign of the album’s magnitude in sound, and of the band’s boldness in breaking away from home comforts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Football also joked that LP3’s genre was ‘post-house’, because of this very conscious visual break. But, in a strange way, there are links in LP3 with an actual post-house genre: shoegaze. The more exploratory members of the original British shoegaze scene were inspired by the dreamtime and circularity of house music (ambient house in particular), cherishing its sonic possibilities. That spirit drips into LP3, most obviously on I Can’t Feel You, a collaboration with Rachel Goswell of Slowdive. 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. 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The album later appeared on Rolling Stone’s “40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time” list at #6, with Pitchfork giving its deluxe reissue the “Best New Reissue” title, calling it the “most influential album in the genre.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polyvinyl","offers":[{"title":"Kelly Green vinyl w\/ 8 page booklet and download card in gatefold jacket","offer_id":55357675012482,"sku":"DHR-04529","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/2800\/5583\/files\/be15574f9beda7587a5c0303040e9299.jpg?v=1751526638"},{"product_id":"american-football-lp4","title":"American Football  -  LP4","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the idea of recording a fourth album came up (for the second time), American Football knew things were going to get darker. After touring a year’s worth of sold-out 25th Anniversary shows around the world and releasing a covers album (featuring Iron and Wine, Ethel Cain, Blondshell and more), the quartet of Mike \u0026amp; Nate Kinsella, Steve Lamos, and Steve Holmes linked up with producer\/engineer Sonny Diperri (My Bloody Valentine, M83, Kurt Vile) to record what would become their most substantial record to date. 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Opening track “Man Overboard” showcases each member’s strengths: the unmatched style and jazz swing of Lamos’ drumming, the lyrical vulnerability and multi-instrumental mastery of both Kinsellas, and Holmes’ signature guitar work, all swirling together like a shoegaze tornado as the guitars and bass surge into something twisted and warped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther standouts like “Blood On My Blood” showcase the band’s unique use of alternating time signatures, while “Bad Moons” (the longest track the band has ever recorded) includes some of Kinsella’s most intense lyrics yet. The album also features guest vocals from Turnstile’s Brendan Yates (“No Feeling”), Wisp (“Wake Her Up”), and Rainer Maria’s Caithlin De Marrais (“Blood On My Blood”).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLP4\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an ambitious artistic statement from a band that continues to push the boundaries of genre and culture. 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