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First Listen: American Football, 'American Football (LP3)'

The seminal emo band's latest builds the band's legacy as meticulously as the layered instrumental parts that constitute the album's songcraft.
American Football's third self-titled LP is due out March 22 on Polyvinyl.

Time has always seemed to work in American Football's favor.

The band's 1999 self-titled debut plays like a love letter to the summer's end, soaked in the sticky complexity of teenage emotion. With songs like "I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional" and the now-iconic "Never Meant," the timing of the album's September release made it the perfect antidote to a

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