American Football - American Football Artist_Africa 70

American Football - American Football Artist_Africa 70From Urbana, IL, American Football offered up a debut EP featuring the talents of guitarist vocalist Mike Kinsella (Owen, Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc), guitarist Steve Holmes and the impeccably timed, jazz like drumming of Steve Lamos. American Football created the kind of songs that held new discoveries upon each listen. These three songs, along with the nine that appear on the band's self titled full length, are the only American Football songs ever

Formed in South London in the mid-1980s

but they killed my desire to share”

A bold artistic choice

including Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake

To him : «’I Only Wanted to Give You Everything’ needs no explanation

Rich in detail and character

Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “I Say A Little Prayer” (Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin)

Titled Seasons of Your Day

the band lay the foundations for future African-American crossover acts such as Fishbone

the individual references

Waves of sparkling notes from a zither that are recurrent throughout the LP really bubble up to the forefront on 'Thousand & Seventeen'

As the Jazz room identity increased within this environment for me Birmingham