Last time, it was figuring out how to use all of our different arms. ‘We were all thoughtful about what we wanted to put out there. ‘We put a lot of time and a lot of energy into it,’ says Mike. I knew there was still more.’Įnter American Football (LP3). ‘I feel like the second album was us figuring it out,’ says Nate. The release was widely praised, but the band members still felt like their best work was yet to come. They played far larger shows than in their original incarnation and recorded their long-anticipated second album, 2016’s American Football (LP2). The three young men who made the album – Mike Kinsella, Steve Holmes, and Steve Lamos – split up pretty much on its release.įifteen years later, American Football reunited (now as a four-piece, with the addition of Nate Kinsella). But there wasn’t a band around anymore to explain it, anyway. Like Slint’s Spiderland, or Codeine’s The White Birch, even Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock, American Football asked far more questions than it cared to answer. It was a pioneering album where lyrical clarity was obscured and complicated by the stealth musical textures surrounding it.
The quietest voices can be the most durable.Īmerican Football’s original triumph, on their 1999 self-titled debut, was to reunite two shy siblings: emo and post-rock.
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