I like American Football (the band) does anyone else?

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I'm into it.

jaymc, Friday, 22 March 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link

heir apparent, holy crap. losing it at the flute and piano.

Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 March 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link

i'll make new friends
in the ambulance

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 22 March 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link

and a fucking children's chorus, there's not a single wink to the camera in this whole album and it's great

Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 March 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link

otm

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 22 March 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link

i think my favorites are "heir apparent" and "mine to miss" but every song here is so rich

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 22 March 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link

i still can't figure out where they found the time to become an actual band. this album is incredibly well-realized, detailed, and thoughtful.

call all destroyer, Friday, 22 March 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link

Just finishing up my first listen and this feels like a proper American Football Album, rather than Owen as Played by American Football (which I was fine with).

Really beautiful stuff.

michaellambert, Friday, 22 March 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link

really like the slightly expanded instrumentation on this album, quite possibly better than the debut

ufo, Friday, 22 March 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link

I really liked this but vaguely suspicious of how easy it slipped down. Would have been happy for some glass in the bolus or a crescendo.

Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 23 March 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link

seven months pass...

Has this completely drifted by? Stumbled on it today and it's really working; what I had considered to be (pejoratively) becalmed resignation feels directional and apposite. I think I'm here for the long haul.

Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link

I've listened to this again recently, it's probably my favourite album of 2019.

Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link

Yup, up there with me, too. Side purchase, this cool Luke Martin AF tour poster.

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link

That is a dope poster!

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link

six months pass...

The AF album was my favorite of last year. Recently picked up all the Owen albums I was missing, and finding them perfect housebound music. _L'ami du Peuple_ playing now. Pre-ordered the new album, The Avalanche, off Polyvinyl. Now just have to wait for it and new Land of Talk albums to arrive, and that's 20% of my 2020 Top 10 likely solved.

https://youtu.be/NWvia4_n69M

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

lp3 is a masterpiece

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 April 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link


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