American Football Recruit Turnstile's Brendan Yates For New Song 'No Feeling'
(The Oriel Company) American Football have released their brand new single, "No Feeling," featuring Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates, via Polyvinyl Record Co. The track serves as the latest single off their highly anticipated fourth studio album American Football (LP4), out May 1.
Produced by Sonny DiPerri (Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine, Portugal. The Man), "No Feeling" catches the band at a point of no return, teetering on the edge of self-destruction, where feeling itself loses meaning. Beautifully layered with ethereal synths, the band's trademark interwoven guitars, baritone-accented chimes, sultry, confessional vocals of band frontman Mike Kinsella, with the unmistakable harmonies of Yates, the song is elevated to a point of real catharsis while welcoming listeners into its sobering embrace.
Kinsella shares: "Brendan came into the studio to sing along to a 'gang vocal' call-and-response part I'd written for the chorus of "No Feeling." I had imagined his voice would be one of many voices scream-singing it, and was excited for it to be a sort of Easter Egg on the album. But after tracking the original parts, he asked if he could try a higher harmony that he was hearing. As soon as he started singing it, all of our jaws dropped, and we all were looking at each other like "Oh sh*t! THAT'S the dude from Turnstile!" His voice is so singular, and once he sang the part in *his* range, it was clear that the part now belonged to him and him alone..."
The tracks' music video, directed by Cady Buche & Travis Barron of Unlimited Time Only (Khruangbin & Leon Bridges' "Chocolate Hills," Little Dragon's "Slugs of Love," Roosevelt's "Luna"), plays into this morbid, yet entrancing mindset, taking the form of a hallucinogenic animation that depicts ghost-like creatures aboard a sunken ship, dancing and celebrating their last moments before a submarine finds them deep underwater, pulling them above board and effectively sending these creatures into a spiral upon finding fresh air.
Buche and Barron share: "Our goal with music videos is to tell a story that captures what we think and feel while listening to the song. When we listened to "No Feeling" for the first time, we thought a lot about mysterious places like outer space and the bottom of the ocean-they're beautiful and they also kind of freak you out. The music also brought to mind the idea of going down with the ship or a sense of crushing inevitability. Then we thought, what if you flipped that? What if you opened on a sunken ship and that was the beginning? What if this sunken ship were a thriving habitat for ghosts who live there? What if something came along that jeopardized their beautiful afterlife?"
With LP4, the band faces some of life's harshest realities head-on, reflecting on the disorientation, compromise, grief, and hard-won perspective of middle age. Overhauling their writing and recording processes, the band has effectively created their most sonically ambitious album to date, layered, dissonant, occasionally confrontational, and always deeply felt. "Bad Moons," the album's lead single, serves as an embodiment of what's to come with the band's upcoming new album.
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