The trio spent almost a year coming up with a clean, melodic approach that blended the intimacy of emo with the empty space of jazz, while adding pop hooks and jangling guitar interplay to the mix. They brought in Kinsella and began working on crafting songs and a sound. When that band split, Lamos and Holmes started playing together. Kinsella had already played drums in the frantic emocore group Cap'n Jazz and the darker, more melodic post-rock band Joan of Arc he and Lamos were also members of the One Up Downstairs. The band formed while the members - vocalist/bassist/guitarist Mike Kinsella, guitarist Steve Holmes, and drummer/trumpet player Steve Lamos - were students at the University of Illinois in 1997. The group's new albums in the second half of the 2010s captured the spirit of their earlier work but added the gravitas of time passed, as well as a new sense of sonic experimentation on 2019's LP3. Their stature grew, and when they reunited in 2014 for a handful of shows, the outpouring of love and support they received spurred them to make the reunion a more permanent venture. American Football made an EP and a self-titled album in the late '90s that didn't garner tons of attention at the time of their releases, but in the years that followed, the sparse and emotional sound the trio created became an influential emo touchstone.
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