American Football – “Silhouettes”

The critically acclaimed midwest-emo band are back with a new single and it’s as twinkly as ever.

After the mixed reception from LP2 in 2016 the band are back with the leading single from their 3rd studio album combining their original sound with the newer sound of LP2. With added tuned percussion at the beginning the song takes a while to get through an introduction but once the first guitar chord is heard, it washes over the listener like a wave of emotion. Focusing on falling out of love in a relationship, the song has a poignant sense of sadness to it throughout with the instrumentation solidifying this through the reverb-drenched, interlinking guitars combined with the somewhat jazzy, slow tempo drums creates a song for the broken-hearted.

As with most people, I’m a big fan of a memorable sad song and these guys do it very well and as a fan of LP2 I found the track to be a nice breath of fresh air for the band overall, having notes of the first album in it throughout. I am thoroughly excited to see what their new album will have in store.

You’d better get the tissues out for this one.