Last week, American Football confirmed that their fourth studio LP—officially titled American Football but commonly known as LP 4—will arrive later this year. Today, the band have shared the album’s lead single. “Bad Moons” started life as two separate songs, which were combined into a single eight-minute track. Alex Acy and Rémi Belleville directed the accompanying music video. Watch it below.
“I decided to begin the song as a child,” American Football frontman Mike Kinsella said in a press statement. “Or, rather…two. Stacked up in a single trench coat; secretly, reluctantly living the life of a grown man, accruing all of his missteps and guilt along the way. By the end, these missteps are almost spilling out of the boys. A cathartic confession, hopefully at least somewhat relatable to anyone listening who’s ever lived a life.”
American Football’s LP 4 is out May 1 on Polyvinyl. The band will kick off a sprawling tour of North America and Europe later that month. For each ticket sold, they’ll be donating a dollar, pound, or euro to Safe Passage International and the Illinois Coalition for Immigration & Refugee Rights.
Read Mike Kinsella on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless in 18 Musicians on Their Favorite Albums of the ’90s.
