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American Football Announces LP3 With Haunting 'Silhouettes'

Paramore's Hayley Williams, Land of Talk's Elizabeth Powell and Slowdive's Rachel Goswell all appear on the emo band's third self-titled album, out March 22.
American Football's third self-titled album comes out March 22.

If 's 2014 album was the , then and are its wise tenants. The former's continued the graceful through-line of Rainer Maria's career, proving to be . But American Football's provoked something of an existential question: What happens to the notebook scribblings of a lost, 20-something hopeless romantic at middle age? They flourish at the crinkliest pages.

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