Credits:

American Football

Description:

On their fourth album, LP4, the guys in American Football continue to expand their sound into almost epic proportions, while whittling the lyrical focus down to a sharp point. As on the last album, the band aims for a more filled-in sound, adding instrumentation that goes far beyond guitars — this time some orchestral flourishes and loads of synth pads — and kitting out the arrangements with extra bits of atmospheric richness. The opening track gives a good clue to the heights the band seem to be aiming for as the song builds and builds to the kind of sonic rush that wouldnt be out of place on a Coldplay or early-ish Radiohead album. Its a combination of well-polished and ambitious, so much of a step forward that some fans might be left wondering what happened to the group who cut their first album decades earlier. The lyrical content gives a clue perhaps, as they detail in sometimes bru