From 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…
Deluxe edition 2 LP 2014 reissue on red marbled 180-gram vinyl. Jazz influences took their effect on the short-lived emo band American Football. All through their self-titled 1999 debut album, you can hear jazz rhythm and timing while the instruments trade off solos like they are talking to each other. Yet, blended with true emo…
Limited 180 gram orange colored vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. In 1999 Polyvinyl, then only 3 years old, released an unassuming debut album by a band called American Football. The band played a dozen shows and then parted ways. Then something remarkable happened: for the next 15 years, the album was discovered over and…
Limited 180gm Light Blue vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. American Football s 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 Slint s Spiderland, or Codeine s…
After quietly releasing their self-titled debut album in 1999 while still in college, American Football disbanded after the album s release to focus on other projects, only to reunite 15 years later to a fanbase that had been consistently growing throughout the underground emo scene. The album later appeared on Rolling Stone s 40 Greatest…
The next chapter of Danny Kiranos, p k a Amigo the Devil, continues with Yours Until the War Is Over – his most disarming and singular work to date. The 13-track project weaves themes of relatable self-destruction and trauma bonding with arresting authenticity. Riddled with obscure literary references – akin to Kiranos maniac reading habit…
Containing some of Amorphis most memorable melodic metal ever, Elegy imperceptibly interweaves a keen sense of melodic structure with harmonies from Finnish folk-song, lush keyboard atmospheres, psychedelic guitar tones, and an array of vocal styles. Special deluxe reissue featuring never-before-heard bonus material!
A critically-acclaimed metal masterpiece, perfectly combines elements of heavy metal, doom, death metal and progressive rock . This reissue contains the band s BLACK WINTER DAY EP and a Doors cover of Light My Fire.
With feral ferocity Finland s Amorphis emerged from Scandinavia s renowned death metal scene in the early nineties as contenders for world domination. Their debut release The Karelian Isthmus is a crushing crusade of majestically moving atmospheric death metal. Top-notch Sunlight Studios production and fantastic cover artwork, courtesy of Miran Kim, dramatically realized the powerful…
Here s a lot of existential stuff in these songs, says Amos Lee. If you really listen to what s in between the lines, there s a lot of grappling with your place in the world, grappling with loss. There s a lot of grappling with the balance between bailing out the boat and rowing…
Winner of Five 2008 Grammy Awards including Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance & Best Pop Vocal Album Amy Winehouse s second album, Back to Black, is one of the finest soul albums, British or otherwise, to come out in years. Frank, her first album,…