Temporal Cove w/ American Football

Where the wall meets the floor, Temporal Cove is a body of sound exploring the ethereal and ephemeral. Smilegoth dives into shoegaze, post-rock, house and more to articulate a flow of reverberations that can be felt on every surface. From the host: "American Football's guest mix for smilegoth's Temporal Cove -- Selections from Mike Kinsella, Steve Holmes, Steve Lamos, & Nate Kinsella of the pioneering emo rock band American Football." "The quietest voices don’t just endure — sometimes they deepen." "For a band once defined by understatement, American Football has become something increasingly rare: one whose stature has grown less by nostalgia than through patience, self-interrogation and the long view." "Formed in the late 90s while attending The University of Illinois in Champaign–Urbana, the original trio—guitarist Steve Holmes, guitarist and singer Mike Kinsella, and drummer and trumpet player Steve Lamos—played no more than a dozen shows over a brief two-year span, releasing a lone album via their friends' label, Polyvinyl, as a farewell document before graduating and going their separate ways. Since reuniting in 2014—with the addition of cousin Nate Kinsella on bass, and after a decade-plus dormancy—American Football hasn’t simply returned to its past. It has moved forward in parallel with its audience, writing music that reflects the disorientation, compromise, grief and hard-won perspective of middle age." "Their fourth self-titled album and first in seven years, American Football (LP4), is the clearest and most satisfying expression of that evolution yet. It’s simultaneously the band’s darkest and most playful, its most complex and — paradoxically — its most generous. Throughout, LP4 stares matter-of-factly at despair while refusing the comforts of melodrama or easy resolution. It stands as a document of endurance, friendship, creative trust and the strange grace of growing older without growing static."