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American Football have shared another piece of their upcoming 4th full-length, and they are joined by a very special guest.

Titled ‘No Feeling’, it continues down the band’s recent path of crafting dizzyingly beautiful moments littered with sparkles of synth-laden prettiness. Despite how stunning the instrumental is, there is, of course, melancholy in the lyrical turns, with Mike Kinsella crooning with a broken numbness. It’s an incredible juxtaposition, the sort that the band have spent the last nearly 30 years honing their craft within.

And with the addition of Turnstile’s Brendan Yates on the jangly chorus, it is further cemented as an instant classic. Also serving as a vocalist who wears their heart firmly on their sleeve and leaves nothing to chance in expressing how they are feeling, it’s a potent combination to say the least.

Mike has this to say about the collaboration, explaining, ““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.” 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…”

‘American Football (LP4)’ is set for release on May 01 via Polyvinyl.

It will also feature ‘Bad Moons’ which sounds a lot like this:

The band are set to hit the road on both sides of the Atlantic around the album’s release. Here are all of their upcoming tour dates.

MAY

15 – DENVER Summit Music Hall *
17 – SALT LAKE CITY Kilby Block Party
18 – BOISE Treefort Music Hall *
19 – SEATTLE Moore Theater *
20 – PORTLAND Crystal Ballroom *
22 – SAN FRANCISCO Regency Ballroom *
23 – LOS ANGELES The Wiltern *
24 – SAN DIEGO The Observatory North Park *

JUNE

19 – MILAN Alcatraz !
20 – STUTTGART Im Wizeman !
21 – COLOGNE Die Kantine !
23 – BRUSSEL La Madeleine !
24 – AMSTERDAM Paradiso !
26 – LEEDS O2 Academy !
27 – LONDON O2 Kentish Forum !

JULY

08 – BOSTON Royale #
09 – NEW YORK Brooklyn Paramount #
10 – PHILADELPHIA Union Transfer #
11 – WASHINGTON 9:30 Club #
14 – RICHMOND The National
15 – ASHEVILLE Orange Peel #
16 – ATLANTA Variety Playhouse #

AUGUST

07 – CLEVELAND House of Blues ^
08 – TORONTO The Concert Hall ^
09 – PITTSBURGH Roxian Theatre
10 – COLUMBUS Newport Music Hall ^
12 – NASHVILLE Marathon Music Works ^
13 – INDIANAPOLIS Deluxe at Old National Centre ^
14 – CHICAGO The Salt Shed ^
15 – MILWAUKEE Turner Hall Ballroom ^
16 – MINNEAPOLIS First Avenue ^

* Mei Semones

! Marconi Union

# IAN SWEET

^ Afternoon Bike Ride

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Last month Zoh Amba signed to Matador as a singer-songwriter after playing as a free jazz saxophonist for years. Now the musician is announcing their new album Eyes Full, and the lead single “Another Time” is here today. After years of being a part of the New York avant-garde scene, Amba is returning to Tennessee,…

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Since he came to the spotlight a little more than a decade ago, Sturgill Simpson has explored a bunch of different genres of music: psychedelic outlaw country, gritty blues-rock, old-timey bluegrass. Under his Johnny Blue Skies alter-ego, Simpson just released the disco-rock-country-funk experiment Mutiny After Midnight, and he and his band are about to take it out on tour. But it turns out that Simpson has been experimenting with genre for longer than anyone knew. Today, we get to see his ’90s-rapper incarnation.

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San Francisco’s most notoriously volatile outfit, the Dwarves, have announced the release of their new full-length LP, JENKEM, arriving on June 5th via Greedy Records. Known for a reputation that makes G.G. Allin look like a choirboy, the band is billing this record as a ferocious return to their fastest and most aggressive form. Produced … Continue reading Dwarves return to “feral” hardcore roots with new album ‘JENKEM’

Auditory esotericism finds a revival.

If recent trends in popular culture have taught anything, it is that safeness and predictability remain the order of the day for artists looking to capture the ears of the mainstream. In this context, a fold of musicians seeking to buck said trends most brazenly, throwing proverbial caution to the wind and inviting all within earshot to step outside of their comfort zone, can’t help but be a welcome breath of fresh air.

Such has been the stock and trade of British progressive rock outfit and purveyors of the mathematical side of the sonic equation, Poly-Math, since their mid-2010s formation, eschewing the very concept of convention and fusing together disparate influences seamlessly into a compact series of instrumental jams. Their latest studio entry, sporting the esoterically themed title of Something Deeply Hidden, marks the fifth and arguably most adventurous foray into the studio LP format they’ve concocted since their 2013 debut EP Vertex.

Standing at a crossroads between the stylings of Ethio-jazz, classic progressive rock, post-rock, and math-rock, the four-piece arrangement that lays down these seven tapestries of sonic ambiguity walks a brilliant tightrope between virtuosic excess and tasteful accessibility.

Between the loose jazzy grooves of drummer Chris Woollison, the happy traveling bass high-jinks of Joe Branton and the crunchy distorted six-string handiwork of Tim Walters; this trio that rounded out the original lineup has all the chops to hold a sizable candle to Rush at their most quirkily elaborate, yet the auditory niche that they establish mixes a greater degree of cold logic to go with the cultural mystique that flows through each composition. Much of this owes to the spacey ambience and oddball studio tricks brought to the fore by keyboardist Scott Gesner, which adds an additional layer of dissonance and depth that rockets the entire arrangement well into the cosmos.

Upon its very opening, Something Deeply Hidden establishes a tone of deep contemplation with an explosive execution, rocking as hard as some of the more aggressive mainline rock bands of the 70s while maintaining a thick, post-rock atmosphere. Consequently, the relatively compact opener “The Universe As An Engine” pounds out a mathematically elaborate rhythmic pulse between the drum kit and guitars that could be likened to an interstellar twist on “YYZ” with double the keyboard presence.

Nipping on its heels with an even more upbeat yet dissonant character is “OneTwoThreeFour Body Problem”, a rather unsubtle nod to the n-body problem (a concept in studying the motion and behavior of celestial bodies where more than 2 bodies result in an unsolvable equation) that matches chaotic drum work with highly agitated riffing and a generally spooky vibe fit for outer space.

Rounding out what might be dubbed the compact trio is the similarly short and upbeat “Chronostesia”, which crams in so many flashy, jazz-inspired twists and turns that it falls just shy of achieving sonic singularity. Generally, the longer things go, the more that the outlandish musical ideas populating this opus are given a chance to grow and develop.

The extended seven and a half minute jam dubbed “No Such Thing As Now” comes with its fair share of abrupt changes in feel and timbre, but it’s smooth grooving intro and its more agitated and hard-edged development section just past the halfway point feel less fleeting and make for a more grounded journey from A to B, even if the song’s title suggests there is no real distinction between the two.

A similar story is told on the slightly shorter “Spectral Disorder”, which sees Branton’s busy bass work enjoy a greater degree of prominence amid the deluge of jazzy drum fills, warring keyboard timbres, and crackling riffs and lead guitar passages. Yet the best is saved for last via the towering 8-minute final hurrah “Terror Management Theory”, which sees every moving part in the arrangement exploding into a kinetic war of virtuosic intrigue while having a clear sense of sectional development and progression that keeps it from being a mere showboating session.

Terms like avant-garde and experimental get thrown around when discussing any brand of progressive rock, perhaps rightly so given that the genre hasn’t really enjoyed a comparable resurgence since its peak in the early to mid 1970s, but they are labels that perfectly encapsulate just what Poly-Math is about.

At first listen, one might be tempted to dismiss this as music written solely for musicians, steeped in technical flourishes and obscure stylings that carry little appeal for those who aren’t already predisposed to performing such feats on their own respective instruments. However, a closer inspection reveals a band that has taken all of the right cues from the formative strides of King Crimson as well as the 2000s progressive/experimental revivalism of The Mars Volta and Battles and translated them into an instrumental template that can be appreciated outside of virtuoso circles.

Something Deeply Hidden rewards patience and punishes assumptions. Poly-Math have built something that belongs to no scene, owes nothing to trends, and sounds exactly like itself — which, in 2026, might be the most radical thing a band can do.

Release Date: April 10th, 2026
Record Label: The Lasers Edge
Genre: Progressive Rock, Math Rock

Musicians:

• Tim Walters / Guitars
• Joe Branton / Bass
• Chris Woollison / Drums
• Scott Gesner / Keyboards

Something Deeply Hidden Tracklist:

1. The Universe As An Engine
2. One/Two/Three/Four Body Problem
3. No Such Thing As Now
4. Euthyphro Dilemma
5. Spectral Dis/Order
6. Chronostesia
7. Terror Management Theory

Order the album here.

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We recently checked in with Dave at 1809 at had a great interview. Hope you enjoy! Where is the studio located? Macedon, NY (20 Minutes east of Rochester)A solar-powered recording studio is housed inside a re-purposed, 19th-century Erie Canalside Tavern. In a nice off-the-beaten-path kind of location, while still close to any amenities one needs. […]

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(written by Todd Manning) “If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?”- Charles Fort The Midwest’s best-kept secret is Indianapolis’s doom/sludge juggernaut, Veilcaste. Every time they hit the studio, their sound grows, the space between the stars grows darker, the universe gets a bit heavier. Their latest single, “Embedded”, marks the current apex […]

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