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American Football (LP4) in uscita nelle prossime settimane

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American Football (LP4) in uscita nelle prossime settimane

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On its improbable third album since reuniting in 2014 after a 14-year hiatus, American Football isn’t interested in reclaiming youth so much as interrogating what came after it. The Sonny DiPerri-co-produced LP4 (Polyvinyl) doesn’t just revisit the band’s long-established emotional palette – it complicates it, stretching those heart-piercing guitar lattices and murmured confessions into heavier, stranger and, at times, genuinely disorienting realms. After all, emo boys don’t merely cry – they write songs that make everyone else cry too. Here, that impulse often feels like equal parts catharsis and confrontation.
Opener “Man Overboard” quickly signals the shift. Its knotty, almost dizzying drum pattern and swelling walls of sound feel alien in this context, culminating in Mike Kinsella’s blunt admission, “It’s hopeless.” By the time “No Feeling” settles into something closer to the band’s classic shimmer (heartbeat bass, interlocking six-strings, guest harmony vocals from Turnstile’s Brendan Yates), he’s emotionally checked out, tracing the numb aftermath of endings that don’t come with villains.
If earlier American Football records hinted at adult disillusionment, LP4 plunges cannon ball-style into it. “Patron Saint of Pale” pairs a deceptively buoyant rhythm with the logistical absurdity of divorce (Kinsella suggests a game of Rock Paper Scissors as a novel, lawyer-free way to settle things), while “Wake Her Up” cloaks morbid fixation in one of the most immediate and effervescent melodies the band has ever written. Even the wryness cuts deeper now; “Blood on My Blood” turns self-awareness into a kind of defense mechanism, its zig-zagging groove masking the threat embedded in its lyrics (“don’t make me use my pen” / “my worlds killed before and they’ll kill again”).
The centerpiece, though, is “Bad Moons,” an eight-minute slow burn that spirals from surreal humor into far more unsettling territory. Kinsella’s extended litany of sins committed in the dark — “lost my mind,” “explored new kinks,” “told all my lies,” “slit my wrists” – lands with a cumulative weight that’s hard to shake, especially as the music fractures and reforms around him.
Even the instrumentals feel purposeful. “The One With the Piano” and “Lullabye” offer brief, uneasy respites, while the Music for 18 Musicians-tinged “Desdemona” threads hypnotic textures through a song about intimacy and damage with no tidy takeaways. By closer “No Soul To Save,” Kinsella sounds defiant, exhausted and uncertain all at once. Indeed, from beginning to end, LP4 is remarkably expansive. Not louder, necessarily – just deeper, messier and quite willing to tolerate discomfort. Middle age has never felt, or sounded, like a more beautiful bummer.

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Who Loves The Sun, our third full-length record is out September 4th via The Flenser.
Listen to the first single, “Deep Blue” today on your streaming platform of choice or watch the video directed by Stephen Mondics.
Preorders for the record are available now over at nowflensing.com
Who Loves the Sun doesn’t necessarily sound like Black Sabbath’s Dehumanizer, however it is very much in line thematically with the Dehumanizer album cover. Do with that information what you will - in the meantime check out Deep Blue and help us spread the word.
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Quicksand's new album is Bring On The Psychics, released on July 17, 2026 through Equal Vision Records. It features 10 tracks with a total runtime of 29 minutes and was produced in just 10 days by Jon Markson

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Quicksand's new album is Bring On The Psychics, released on July 17, 2026 through Equal Vision Records. It features 10 tracks with a total runtime of 29 minutes and was produced in just 10 days by Jon Markson

https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/album/ ... _3JGy9QlkA eccolo intiero

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Chat Pile

Who Loves The Sun, our third full-length record is out September 4th via The Flenser.
Listen to the first single, “Deep Blue” today on your streaming platform of choice or watch the video directed by Stephen Mondics.
Preorders for the record are available now over at nowflensing.com
Who Loves the Sun doesn’t necessarily sound like Black Sabbath’s Dehumanizer, however it is very much in line thematically with the Dehumanizer album cover. Do with that information what you will - in the meantime check out Deep Blue and help us spread the word.
A ton of news is on the way related to the album (some coming later today in fact) so make sure to check in from time to time to make sure you don’t miss anything. Vedi meno

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