American Football - American Football (LP3) (Light Blue Vinyl)

American Football - American Football (LP3) (Light Blue Vinyl)American Football's LP3 The quietest voices can be the most durable. American Footballs original triumph, on their 1999 self titled debut, was to reunite two shy siblings: emo and post rock. It was a pioneering album where lyrical clarity was obscured and complicated by the stealth musical textures surrounding it. Like Slints Spiderland, or Codeines The White Birch, even Talk Talks Laughing Stock, American Football asked far more questions than it

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