AMERICAN FOOTBALL 07/21/2009 A1 Underlands

A1                   Underlands

Prior to the release of his complete performance on the thoroughly excellent Isaac Hayes at Wattstax (2003)

It's the experimenting here that really shows what could have been

he evokes blue skies

and what you hear on this CD was "mastered from nth generation collector tapes

AMERICAN FOOTBALL 07/21/2009 A1 UnderlandsSince American Football broke up soon after the release of their self titled 1999 album, it felt like their one and only release was some kind of magical occurrence that existed at the point where math rock, post rock, emo, and confessional singer songwriter all coincided. In the years since, other bands came close to reaching the tender soft focus heights that the band reached, but nobody ever managed to find the same blend of innocent technical