Ethel Cain, Manchester Orchestra and Blondshell feature on American Football anniversary covers album

The band have shared “By no means Meant (Remastered)” together with Iron & Wine’s opening rendition of “By no means Meant”, together with official music video, with phantasmal footage of Sam Beam of Iron & Wine transposed throughout the partitions of the enduring American Football House in Urbana, IL.

Steve Lamos expressed the band’s gratitude for Beam’s involvement within the mission. “When the primary Iron & Wine report got here out, it threaded the needle between Townes Van Zandt and Elliott Smith. It felt like if Nick Drake grew up with us listening to Fugazi earlier than pivoting to creating bed room artwork folks. In different phrases, it was precisely what we might have been making if our first report got here out once we have been 28 as an alternative of twenty-two. Sam Beam is an unbelievable songwriter and interpreter of track, and it’s past flattering that he would take the time to interpret certainly one of ours.”

“My neighbour Brad Prepare dinner and I’ve been circling one another hoping to work on one thing for a bit,” shares Beam of his involvement within the album. “Once I was requested about this mission, it felt like the right alternative. Particularly a track that I knew meant loads to American Soccer’s followers. Honoured to be a part of this and hoping we did it justice.”

American Soccer LP1 will likely be reissued with a very remastered model of the 1999 album, in addition to a covers version of the report that includes contributions from an array of proficient artists together with Iron & Wine, Ethel Cain, Manchester Orchestra, Blondshell and extra. American Soccer LP1 has been lovingly remastered for the primary time by authentic mastering engineer Jonathan Pines in Urbana’s Personal Studios, the place it was recorded.

Tracklist:

1. Iron & Wine – By no means Meant
2. Blondshell – The Summer season Ends
3. Novo Amor & Lowswimmer – Actually?
4. Ethel Cain – For Positive
5. Yvette Younger – You Know I Ought to Be Leaving Quickly
6. Woman Extremely – However the Regrets Are Killing Me
7. M.A.G.S. – I will See You When We’re Each Not So Emotional
8. Manchester Orchestra – Keep House
9. John McEntire – The One With the Wurlitzer