To start your Friday off right, American Football has released the third single off their new album (LP3, due out March 22), this time bringing in Land of Talk’s Elizabeth Powell for a. A follow up to late January’s “Uncomfortably Numb” (the incredible duet that featured Hayley Williams of Paramore), the latest taste of the group’s third full-length is a hauntingly beautiful, multi-lingual duet that sees the band teaming up with Land of Talk’s lead vocalist, Elizabeth Powell.
The idea for a collaboration with Powell came about after her band, Land of Talk, toured with American Football in 2017. “We were all crazy about her voice already, so we reached out to see if she’d be interested and she was!” recalls AF vocalist Mike Kinsella. “The melody and some fill-in lyrics were already written and demoed but once she was on board I thought it’d be fun / add some depth to her ‘character’ by having her sing a line in French. So I wrote some lines and sent them to her, and then she translated them for me in the way a person who spoke French would actually say them. She was so cool and helpful and it turned into literally my favorite part of the album.”
“Every Wave To Ever Rise” is taken from their new album American Football (LP3), which, as we know, will be out March 22nd via Polyvinyl Record Co. You can pre-order the album here.
American Football are also confirmed for a few North American tour dates for May and June, with newly announced support from with Illuminati Hotties, Pure Bathing Culture, and Tomberlin. The tour includes a stop at the Treefort Music Festival (Boise, ID) March 20-24, and an album release party at Chicago’s The Metro on March 30. Tickets for all shows are available here, and an updated tour poster can be found below.
American Football ‘LP3’ Tour Dates:
# w/ Sam Prekop, Campdogzz
$ w/ illuminati hotties
% w/ Pure Bathing Culture
^ w/ Tomberlin
MARCH
23 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Festival
30 – Chicago, IL @ Metro (Album Release Show) # SOLD OUT
MAY
10 – Arcosanti, AZ @ Form Festival
12 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater $
13 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall $
15 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom $
16 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial $
17 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo $
19 – Sain-Thérèse, Quebec @ Santa Teresa Music & Arts Festival
21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer %
22 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club %
23 – Washington, DC @ The Black Cat %
24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw %
JUNE
21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall ^
22 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall ^
25 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf ^
27 – Dallas, TX @ Trees ^
28 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk ^
29 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall ^
JULY
26 – 28 – Niigata, Japan – Fuji Rock Festival
