American Soccer announce twenty fifth anniversary self-titled album reissue
American Soccer have introduced a twenty fifth anniversary reissue of their self-titled debut album – in addition to a brand new covers version that includes Ethel Cain, Blondshell and extra. Discover all the main points beneath.
The US band launched the seminal ‘American Soccer’ (aka ‘LP1’) again in 1999, and adopted it up with two full-length information of the identical identify: 2016’s ‘LP2’ and 2019’s ‘LP3’.
- READ MORE: American Soccer – ‘American Soccer’ (2019) album overview
At this time (July 31), it has been confirmed that the group will drop a very remastered model of ‘LP1’ – titled ‘American Soccer (twenty fifth Anniversary Version)’ – on October 18 by way of Polyvinyl.
The gathering is about to be accompanied by ‘American Soccer (Covers)’, which is able to a special artist tackle every of the album’s 9 tracks. Ethel Cain recorded a rendition of ‘For Positive’, whereas Blondshell lined ‘The Summer season Ends’.
Additionally showing are Manchester Orchestra (on ‘Keep Dwelling’), Iron & Wine (‘By no means Meant’), Novo Amor & Lowswimmer (‘Actually?’), Woman Extremely (‘However The Regrets Are Killing Me’) and extra.
To preview the anniversary releases, American Soccer have shared the newly remastered ‘By no means Meant’ together with Iron & Wine’s “heat and transformative” interpretation of the music.
The latter comes with an official music video directed by Alec Basse and Max Moore – tune in right here.
Iron & Wine (aka Sam Beam) recorded his cowl of ‘By no means Meant’ with producer Brad Cook dinner (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee).
“My neighbour Brad Cook dinner and I’ve been circling one another hoping to work on one thing for a bit,” Beam defined.
“Once I was requested about this challenge, it felt like the proper alternative. Particularly a music that I knew meant rather a lot to American Soccer’s followers. Honoured to be a part of this and hoping we did it justice.”
Talking about Beam’s involvement within the challenge, American Soccer’s Steve Lamos added: “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 people. In different phrases, it was precisely what we might have been making if our first report got here out after we had been 28 as an alternative of twenty-two.”
He concluded: “Sam Beam is an unbelievable songwriter and interpreter of music, and it’s past flattering that he would take the time to interpret one among ours.”
American Soccer teased the challenge final week on social media, main followers to imagine that new music was imminent.
A 24-second video slowly panned out from the 704 W Excessive Road home in Urbana, Illinois – which options on the duvet art work for each ‘LP1’ and its 2016 follow-up, ‘LP2’.
Final 12 months, American Soccer revealed that that they had bought the property (now identified amongst followers as ‘The American Soccer Home’) “in an effort to protect its place and legacy inside the neighborhood that constructed it”.
The quilt art work for the upcoming ‘American Soccer (Covers)’ exhibits the home at varied phases of the night time by way of 9 completely different pictures, with the video for Iron & Wine’s cowl utilizing phantasmal footage of Beam transposed throughout its partitions.
You possibly can pre-order/pre-save both albums here, and see the total tracklists beneath.
‘American Soccer (twenty fifth Anniversary Version)’ tracklist:
1. ‘By no means Meant’
2. ‘The Summer season Ends’
3. ‘Actually?’
4. ‘For Positive’
5. ‘You Know I Ought to Be Leaving Quickly’
6. ‘However The Regrets Are Killing Me’
7. ‘I’ll See You When We’re Each Not So Emotional’
8. ‘Keep Dwelling’
9. ‘The One With the Wurlitzer’
‘American Soccer (Covers)’ 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’ll See You When We’re Each Not So Emotional’
8. Manchester Orchestra – ‘Keep Dwelling’
9. John McEntire – ‘The One With the Wurlitzer’
American Soccer are resulting from embark on headline excursions within the UK and US this autumn to have a good time the twenty fifth anniversary of their 1999 self-titled debut album. The stint features a headline gig on the Roundhouse in Camden City, London on September 14.
Find any remaining tickets here (UK) and here (North America).
American Soccer’s 2024 tour dates are:
SEPTEMBER
11 – Rock Metropolis, Nottingham
12 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
13 – SWX, Bristol
14 – Roundhouse, London
27 – Thalia Corridor, Chicago
28 – Thalia Corridor, Chicago
OCTOBER
11 – Greatest Buddies Perpetually Pageant, Las Vegas
12 – El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles
13 – El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles
24 – Howard Theatre, Washington, DC
25 – Howard Theatre, Washington, DC
26 – Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY
27 – Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY
NOVEMBER
16 – Corona Capital Pageant, Mexico Metropolis