American Football [Covers] (Vinyl LP, Clear)

You know, you're never too old to be a young emo, and we're revelling in our middle aged teenage angst at the news that the essential Midwest emo debut from American Football has been announced for a 25th anniversary reissue. Topping off this very special reissue news is the announcement of an accompanying covers album featuring the likes of Iron & Wine, Blondshell, Tortoise's John McEntire, and plenty more. Maybe we never went to college in Illinois, but we sure as heck felt those feels, and gladly admit we still do. - Flying Out

Alongside and in celebration of American Football (25th Anniversary Edition) arrives American Football (Covers), an ingeniously programmed set that highlights not only the way American Football fueled an eventual “emo revival,” but also and perhaps more important how their songs and sounds infiltrated and inspired so many corners of music. From string-swept and imaginative folk to idiosyncratic international pop, from intricate instrumental splendor to open-road shoegaze wonder, (Covers) traces—or at least teases—the endless ways the source material has cut across borders of generation, genre, and geography. It affirms just how important the nine songs three college kids cut in four days remain.

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