''American Football'' (also known as LP3) is the eponymous third studio album by American rock band

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, released on March 22, 2019 through Polyvinyl and Big Scary Monsters. ''American Football'' is the third

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album by American Football and the second release since their reunion in 2014.

Background

On December 11, 2018, the first single from the album, "Silhouettes", was released, along with the band teasing a third project on Instagram, and the listing for a third self-titled album appearing on

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. A music video for "Silhouettes" was released on January 8, 2019. Later that month, the band released a new single, "Uncomfortably Numb", which references the similarly titled song by

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and features vocals from

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vocalist

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. It was released with an accompanying music video, starring former ''

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'' star Blake Anderson and pro skater Paul Rodriguez. This is their first album to not feature the "American Football house" on any cover or the artwork, as they did on their first two albums.

Reception

''American Football'' was met with highly positive reviews. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an

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score of 80, based on 14 reviews.

Track listing

Track listing information obtained through Apple Music.

Personnel

American Football *Steve Holmes – guitar *Steve Lamos – drums, trumpet *Mike Kinsella – vocals, guitar *Nate Kinsella – bass, glockenspiel Additional personnel *Jason "Jake" Cupp – production *Rachel Goswell – vocals *Elizabeth Powell – vocals *Hayley Williams – vocals

Charts

References

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