American Football
indie
instrumental
emo
trumpet
math rock
‘The One With the Wurlitzer’ is the final track on American Football's 1999 self-titled LP. It keeps with the Midwest emo genre of the album. Featuring Steve Lamos on the trumpet and Steve Holmes on the Wurlitzer, the instrumentals are quick and repetitive yet melancholy and dreamy.
A Wurlitzer is an electronic piano produced between 1950 and the late 1980’s. They are known for their unique sound and versatility. Played softly, the sound can be light and airy, while played aggressively the sound is hard and bark sounding. Read more on Last.fm.
American Football is an American Midwest Emo band from Urbana, Illinois, originally active from 1997 to 2000.
The band was formed by guitarist and singer Mike Kinsella (formerly of Cap'n Jazz, The One Up Downstairs, Joan of Arc, Owls and currently of Owen) and drummer Steve Lamos (formerly of The One Up Downstairs and currently of The Geese), and also included guitar player Steve Holmes.
The band had few live performances and disbanded less than a year after releasing their self-titled album; still, they gained critical acclaim for that album, which merged the plain-spoken, confessional lyrics and melancholic/bittersweet arpeggios of Midwest Emo with the varying time signatures of Math Rock and the atmosphere of Post-Rock, providing a softer musical sensibility.
Mike Kinsella explained the band's name thus: "My girlfriend had been in Dublin, Ireland visiting her family. One of the things she brought home for me was a flyer for a Chicago Bears exhibition game that said: "Come see American Football, featuring the most overpaid athletes in the world." Something about that statement made me think of rock bands, most of whom are the most overpaid musicians in the world. When I suggested it as a name, the other guys thought it was dumb. Still, for whatever reason, we kept it".
The band regrouped in 2014 for two shows to promote the re-issue of their self-titled album. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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