{"id":8890,"date":"2026-02-18T17:37:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/american-football-fourth-album\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:37:36","slug":"american-football-fourth-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/american-football-fourth-album\/","title":{"rendered":"American Football Confirms Fourth Self-Titled LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/02\/AF-by-Alexa-Viscius-lead-1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>American Football&#8217;s Steve Lamos, Mike Kinsella, Nate Kinsella and Steve Holmes (photo: Alexa Viscius).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/american-football-tour\/\">As expected<\/a>, American Football has confirmed its fourth studio album, <em>LP4<\/em>, which will be released May 1 on Polyvinyl Records.<\/p>\n<p>For now, there\u2019s no additional information about the long-awaited follow-up to 2019\u2019s <em>LP3<\/em>, although the group recently posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/americfootball\/reel\/DUq6yaOEi4R\/\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> on Instagram showing members Steve Lamos and Nate Kinsella working through what appears to be a new song on trumpet and piano, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/u2-new-ep\/\">U2 Surprises With Six-Track \u2018Days Of Ash\u2019 EP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/bourbon-and-beyond-lineup-2\/\">Foos, Mumford, DMB Bound For Bourbon &amp; Beyond<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-mccartney-wings\/\">Rock Hall To Revisit McCartney, Wings In New Exhibit<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The influential Midwestern band has already announced an extensive 2026 world tour, which begins May 15 in Denver and wraps up Aug. 16 in Minneapolis. Support acts include Mei Semones, Marconi Union, IAN SWEET and Afternoon Bike Ride. American Football is teaming with PLUS1 to donate $1 from every ticket sold to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sk8kc5uab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001iIJDkUgGSCXM9vNf0RVFV9ZTuRT1PbkBEYsxxRaHf_A8jAqgxi08zPJQxQDIuYQzjHMzIMv2y-MFr4AnQEoSKyKZ5F-OOXf6HyElL8pgipbclnnOXQ_J8YJXJ49ioRUZKAv2HPb2xRhKMePxDEJaHgmOh42f2DKu&amp;c=gEKOfzxw5j_7oN35TVGWTDbd1hTMziZnSd2cXRoNKUaYxVdhJjjlGw==&amp;ch=-i7paPwf0jiOohB4B7HW_nkL5gdGIBKqFppySVEmK28rJmaNZB3fBw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Safe Passage International<\/a>\u00a0abd\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sk8kc5uab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001iIJDkUgGSCXM9vNf0RVFV9ZTuRT1PbkBEYsxxRaHf_A8jAqgxi08zPJQxQDIuYQzo849wk-fIq5oXk7ukTMHbCzPbKg1pAu9DU_6lEJpQXZwPCDgsR-HRFWPGsWwnwFfpkNZUraSn9qbOWn8ghG1pA==&amp;c=gEKOfzxw5j_7oN35TVGWTDbd1hTMziZnSd2cXRoNKUaYxVdhJjjlGw==&amp;ch=-i7paPwf0jiOohB4B7HW_nkL5gdGIBKqFppySVEmK28rJmaNZB3fBw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Illinois Coalition for Immigration &amp; Refugee Rights<\/a>\u00a0in response to the recent escalation of ICE raids in U.S. cities.<\/p>\n<p>American Football toured in 2024 and 2025 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its beloved self-titled debut, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polyvinylrecords.com\/products\/american-football-american-football?srsltid=AfmBOoo3w9iHRm9o3hV45PBjH8X45v_-13qZFc1pKvmCy09PR868wV8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Urbana, Il., house on the cover<\/a>\u00a0of which has become arguably as well known as the band\u2019s music. The Mike Kinsella-led group was inactive from 2000 until 2014 but has released two self-titled studio albums since reforming. The aforementioned 2019 effort featured guest appearances by Paramore\u2019s Hayley Williams and Slowdive\u2019s Rachel Goswell.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Football&#8217;s Steve Lamos, Mike Kinsella, Nate Kinsella and Steve Holmes (photo: Alexa Viscius). As expected, American Football has confirmed its fourth studio album, LP4, which will be released May&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4493,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-football","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}