American Football's first album showcases cleanly picked guitars, intricate drumming, and sincere vocals. The band, made up of Mike Kinsella (Owen, Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc), Steve Holmes and Steve Lamos (The Geese) rooted itself in Champaign and recorded this album at a local studio, Private, with Brendan Gamble (Braid, Moon Seven Times). Despite little touring and with only an EP behind them, these nine songs showcased the trio's uncanny songwriting abilities. Here, American Football created the kind of s...   [ read more ]

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Owen is Mike Kinsella. For nearly ten years now, Mike has been in some of Chicago's most loved bands, AMERICAN FOOTBALL, CAP'N JAZZ, JOAN OF ARC, and OWLS. Of those, he has probably been most closely associated with AMERICAN FOOTBALL, in which he did much of the songwriting and guitar-playing, and all of the singing. With Owen, Mike takes American Football's sound to its next logical level. Mike wrote and performed this entire record by himself: guitars, drums, bass, vocals, everything. It's got all of th...   [ read more ]

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