American Football have teamed up with Turnstile’s Brendan Yates for ‘No Feeling’, the latest single from LP4. Following February’s ‘Bad Moons’, the foggy, wistful tune, produced by Sonny DiPerri, comes paired with a video by Unlimited Time Only’s Cady Buche and Travis Barron. Check it out below.
”Brendan came into the studio to sing along to a ‘gang vocal’ call-and-response part I’d written for the chorus of ‘No Feeling’,” Mike Kinsella shared. “I had imagined his voice would be one of many voices scream-singing it, and was excited for it to be a sort of Easter Egg on the album. But after tracking the original parts, he asked if he could try a higher harmony that he was hearing. As soon as he started singing it, all of our jaws dropped, and we all were looking at each other like ‘Oh shit! THAT’S the dude from Turnstile!’ His voice is so singular, and once he sang the part in *his* range, it was clear that the part now belonged to him and him alone…”
Buche and Barron added: “Our goal with music videos is to tell a story that captures what we think and feel while listening to the song. When we listened to ‘No Feeling’ for the first time, we thought a lot about mysterious places like outer space and the bottom of the ocean—they’re beautiful and they also kind of freak you out. The music also brought to mind the idea of going down with the ship or a sense of crushing inevitability. Then we thought, what if you flipped that? What if you opened on a sunken ship and that was the beginning? What if this sunken ship were a thriving habitat for ghosts who live there? What if something came along that jeopardized their beautiful afterlife?”
American Football’s LP4 comes out May 1 via Polyvinyl. Last week, Turnstile responded to a horrific incident allegedly carried out last week by former guitarist Brady Ebert, who was arrested on attempted murder charges after hitting Yates’ father with his car. “We have no language left for Brady,” the band stated.
