RIP sputnik

verrrrry worried this will suck but kinsella is pretty consistent so there's hope

holy shit
HOLY SHIT

It'll be great-excellent but won't touch the debut in terms of quality. Which I'm fine with unlike 99% of AF fans it seems.

haven't read the AF thread, is it a shit show?

If this album literally doesn't make me want to kill myself because it's so sad, I'll kill myself.

incredibly pumped

no high hopes here, let's wait

uh oh

A H H H H H H H O H F U C K

I hope this can get me into AF
the other sure hasn't been able to for anything more than pleasant background music
don't wanna be that guy, but fair warning, I might end up being that guy

They were pretty much just background music for me for awhile, but they've grown a lot. And btw, 2016 is so fucking LIT.

pretty decent single, will probably be an enjoyable record if nothing that mindblowing

never thought this would happen

New album will be a 3.7 - 3.8 avg. Which is cool. As long as it’s not a shitshow and ends up tarnishing their name they’ll be fine. They’ll just be another band whose debut was a classic and every other album is pretty great.

pretty excited for this, but single isn't grabbing me at all. maybe a few more listens will do it, idk..

Gonna be great.

gonna be pretty awful like their last album

I love the album art. It gives me hope that this will be good.

Band is just ok

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fuck the hotelier the bois are back

sweet

check out kinsella's new solo record

6. Give Me the Gun
7. I Need a Drink (or Two or Three)

mike please no oh no

fuck yeah, this'll be perfect for autumn.

Gotta start tanking my life to get ready for the new album

quit your job. break up with your girlfriend. tell your friends to fuck off. get drunk alone. kill your dad. listen to the new American Football record.

Hyped

I'll remain cautiously optimistic for this album.

song was pretty good but this should just be another owen album

"6. Give Me the Gun
7. I Need a Drink (or Two or Three)

mike please no oh no"

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is that album cover the inside of the American Football house?

new song is pretty nice.

lol dux spam

Band released material twenty years ago and does fuck all since but because brats have been so starved of anything half decent they latch onto shite that was not relevant and total shite back in the day but sound it out as classic. New material released as if it's going to be Who's Next.

New album will be like what everyone forgot back in '99. Welcome to the nothing.

yea xcept the record they released in 99 would go on to develope a legacy and also happened to be genius and the peak of indie/emo rock/whatever. this is just a rehash of a band/album situation that worked so well because it was such a subtle, unforced thing, a bunch of talented musicians coming together in college and just writing a bunch of tappy teenage summer emo songs. this is forced crap cashing in on the legacy that developed from an album that kinsella has a. never touched with any other musical project quality-wise and b. made under a specific set of circumstances and with enough restraint to become what it is today. any public statement that money had nothing to do with this is a straight lie lol

comments here will be better than the album

im confident i could write less painfully awkward lyrics than kinsella churns out now. i respect him a lot, and even like a decent amount of the owen material (especially at home with owen) but as good as he is a musician, as a lyricist he pretty much has one album where the lyrics worked out (af 1999)

"a bunch of talented musicians coming together in college and just writing a bunch of tappy teenage summer emo songs."

Sounds like it would amount to the worst thing ever laid down on record.

"Sounds like it would amount to the worst thing ever laid down on record. "

yea but it amounted to a near masterpiece of a record and easily the peak of the genre from both a style AND songwriting perspective. the best elements to kinsella's songcraft without the weak parts, a supporting cast that couldnt have been better (having a jazz trained drummer and riff obsessed guitarists helped those songs transcend). in my view it's an album that is so good for many reasons, the cirumstances of it's creation being one of them. its the perfect album of its kind and the fact that it has this type of follow up is complete blasphemy, it doesnt make sense

I 3'd it.

can't wait for the fanbase to be disappointed

"any public statement that money had nothing to do with this is a straight lie lol"

its always funny when people think they know without a doubt the intentions of a band. i mean, in some cases it is pretty obvious when bands are making a push to be more commercialized and therefore gain more popularity and money. but this isnt such a case. maybe money is a factor, idk. or maybe theyre just musicians who really like working together. you dont know. either way, the new song is chill as fuck and i think its going to be an enjoyable record.

Typical naive cardigan wearing liberal fanny.

youre irrelevant zak.

My feelings aren't

you have one mode of posting, and thats shitposting. i shouldnt even be addressing you right now. go to youtube or something.

"its always funny when people think they know without a doubt the intentions of a band. i mean, in some cases it is pretty obvious when bands are making a push to be more commercialized and therefore gain more popularity and money. but this isnt such a case. maybe money is a factor, idk. or maybe theyre just musicians who really like working together. you dont know. either way, the new song is chill as fuck and i think its going to be an enjoyable record."

you have no idea what you are talking about. american football were barely a band. they were friends in college, wrote some songs, played a few basement shows, broke up. kinsella went on to do music, few years later af 1999 started developing a legacy amongst indie rock crowds to where it is today, probably one of the most beloved cult classic indie albums. kinsella makes his living as a musician. owen doesnt generate a whole ton. He easily made more from the af revival tour than from anything owen related. then once you see that paycheck its like, ok lets churn out a follow up album of uninspired songs for no reason and why? more exposure, another tour (terminal 5 date for christ sakes are you gonna tell me kinsella has made this kind of money doing ANYTHING else) and more MONEY

Not true and you know it dude.

anybody arguing this wasn't money motivated in any way is absolutely a moron

this was 100% motivated by money

starless you're right but also who cares? most people would do the same. no big deal

alright, fine starless, youre probably right. that song didnt sound uninspired to me though.

i just can't believe people are taking such offense to the idea of them mostly doing it for the money

It could still be a good album but that wouldn't change that fact

"i just can't believe people are taking such offense to the idea of them mostly doing it for the money"

because its disingenuous and making music with the motivation of money often breeds uninspired material. but if they actually give a shit about the project and make some good music, it wont really matter.

adolf, I think it will be fine. song sounds good and they will rake. good for them

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

"but if they actually give a shit about the project and make some good music"

not the point. kinsella doesnt have the skill in my view to make a worthy follow up. certainly this will be a cringe-fest lyrically, whereas af 99 was the perfect dose of his lyricism, all the same themes, but without the extra wordiness or awkward phrasing. just teenage summer tunes performed by inspired, young teens who essentially mastered and pioneered an indie rock style.

new one is a bunch of old dudes making an unneeded follow-up to a one-hit-wonder, circumstantial record that was as good as it was because of the circumstances under which it was comprised. new song sounded like mike kinsella took about 15 minutes to write a new song for owen and then the american football members contributed

"Where Are We Now?"

bowie's been dead 7 months and they're already nicking song titles

I feel like even if the only reason for a new AF album is for the money though, their still gonna try hard to make it as good as they can.

I mean unless they are just total dicks and wanna cash out on a mediocre album and call it quits, there isn't any reason for them not to try an continue this success for as long as they can.

"I mean unless they are just total dicks and wanna cash out on a mediocre album and call it quits"

i dont even think its that

i just think kinsella couldnt make a decent, worthy follow up to af 99 even if he tried

i just think hes far past his peak, and i feel like as good as they all are as musicians, can they really write melodies that match the precision and beauty of the ones they laid down on the previos record. probably not. the arrangement in this song was nice but jjust sounded like they were like ok lets make an american football sounding song with twinkle guitars instead of we have inspiration lets write a song

shut up progmaster

I think it will be pretty ok.

the bottom half of this thread needs to fucking chill

and "i do percieve" > AF

New ulcerate and AF in the same day. What a time to be alive.

New song reminds me more than a little of suff that might be more suited to Owen, but even so I'm hyped as fuck.

This album was born to lose

"and i feel like as good as they all are as musicians, can they really write melodies that match the precision and beauty of the ones they laid down on the previos record."

no, and im not expecting them to. i still think it will be good though.

Not sure about this

Glad to see people in the thread already Wildflowering this album.

Can "good enough" actually just be good enough this once?

I'm happy for these guys. I kinda grew out of this type of music after I stopped drinking, but I wish them well...they helped me through a period, as I'm sure they did for many others.

!!!

Put it in the bin. Give it 15yrs and some bellend will say it's the greatest thing of all time. Then and only then you'll know why I am the way I am.

u mean like nevermind

Nah Nevermind is the opposite

mike mentions in multiple Owen tracks that he has no money. this is clearly some kind of cash grab, although i will still jam the shit out of it.

was kind of disappointed in his latest release tbh, the last owen album was incredible. hopefully he was just saving the good stuff for af

I pre-ordered the CD and limited edition gold vinyl. I disagree about 'The King Of Whys'. Thought it was a great album. And although it is unlikely that this will live up to AF '99, it will still be great. Someone explain how this is a cashgrab.

what a load of fucking shit

i hope this is good

"Someone explain how this is a cashgrab."

is everyone on sput a dense moron or

"is everyone on sput a sense moron or"

they genuinely enjoy playing music together, even after all these years have passed. mike has said that multiple times. when you only have 9 songs plus the ep to construct your set from, it gets boring. No matter how good those songs are. They just want more material so they can keep playing together. If they make a lot of money while doing it, great. but mike gets a pressing of every owen record, so that project does pretty well.

Fail to see what most of Sputnik sees in this band, but maybe they'll prove me wrong.

Well, the album absolutely rules.

yeah it's pretty good