The revered Illinois emo group’s LP4 will arrive on 1st May.
American Football have announced the release of their fourth album.
The revered Illinois emo outfit’s LP4 is scheduled for arrival through long-time label Polyvinyl on 1st May and will be promoted by a recently mapped international tour that encompasses runs of concerts taking place in North America and Europe throughout Spring and Summer of this year. Preceding the album’s full release today the Mike Kinsella-led quartet have shared first single ‘Bad Moons’, which is noted to have been originally conceived as two separate songs before taking on its cathartic and sprawling, eight-minute-long final form.
Kinsella shares of ‘Bad Moons’,
“‘Bad Moons’ is actually a Frankenstein of two different demos we’d been passing around for quite a while: one playful, with children playing and toy-pianos plinking; one brooding, with guitars screeching and drums bombasting. I had already been singing the “(…) in the dark” mantra over the latter, so the biggest challenge for me was thematically bridging the innocence and buoyancy of the first act with the deep despair of the second. I decided to begin the song as a child. Or, rather…two. Stacked up in a single trench coat; secretly, reluctantly living the life of a grown man, accruing all of his missteps and guilt along the way. By the end, these missteps are almost spilling out of the boys. A cathartic confession, hopefully at least somewhat relatable to anyone listening who’s ever lived a life.”
Hear ‘Bad Moons’ and view the track list for LP4 below.
LP4
1 ‘Man Overboard’
2 ‘No Feeling’
3 ‘Blood On My Blood’
4 ‘Bad Moons’
5 ‘The One with the Piano’
6 ‘Patron Saint of Pale’
7 ‘Wake Her Up’
8 ‘Desdemona’
9 ‘Lullabye’
10 ‘No Soul to Save’
LP4 releases on 1st May via Polyvinyl Record Co.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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