American Football - LP4 (Red Vinyl)

American Football - LP4 (Red Vinyl)The quietest voices dont just endure sometimes they deepen. For a band once defined by understatement, American Football has become something increasingly rare: one whose stature has grown less by nostalgia than through patience, self interrogation and the long view. Since reuniting in 2014 after a decade plus dormancy, American Football hasnt simply returned to its past. It has moved forward in parallel with its audience, writing music that reflects

The Line of Best Fit once said

their sublime sophomore full-length - and first for historic indie Flying Nun - as "kind of like a rebirth

Throughout "Running From the Chase" — whose title alludes to the need to balance one’s individual desires with external expectations and pressures — Harrington’s lyrics plunge into despair and frustration

Sun Coming Down maintains the band's tight

dub echo and bass rumble

one half of acclaimed electronic duo Matmos

In between then and now came a series of collaborative albums

understanding

one witnesses thousands of individual stories

“Thank you for listening and supporting this experiment

an objective she achieved only a few months later

and the jaw-dropping live haze of Performance