American Football are gearing up for LP4, and its latest single is a collaboration between the emo stalwarts and descendant Brendan Yates of Turnstile. Listen to Yates and Mike Kinsella duet on the Sonny DiPerri-produced “No Feeling”—in the form of a video by Unlimited Time Only’s Cady Buche and Travis Barron—below.
Kinsella described how the collaboration came to be in a press release, saying, “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.’” Kinsella was excited for Yates’ voice to be an easter egg—one of many voices to be deciphered by fans among a scream-singing chorus. “But after tracking the original parts,” he said, Yates “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, of the video, “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 introduced LP4—the latest in their string of self-titled albums—in February with the single “Bad Moons.” The album arrives May 1 via Polyvinyl. Turnstile, meanwhile, have responded to a harrowing incident allegedly carried out last week by former guitarist Brady Ebert, who is accused of deliberately hitting Yates’ father with his car. “We have no language left for Brady,” the band said in a statement.
