{"id":11211,"date":"2015-03-23T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T12:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-football-etc-disappear-ep\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:12:22","slug":"album-review-football-etc-disappear-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-football-etc-disappear-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review:\u00a0Football, etc. &#8211;\u00a0Disappear EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/705b2d9ef9ba09e7cce4dc9fe4efc52f\/tumblr_inline_nlmj05nOxX1qztcot_500.jpg\" width=\"250px\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">To my mind, <strong>Football, etc.<\/strong> have come to represent the very best the indie-emo niche has to offer. By which I mean that they transcend the genre\u2019s grating sentimentalism, aiming instead for magnetic melancholy, an effortless feat thanks to the moody softness of Lindsay Minton\u2019s haunting tones. Following their two LPs <em>&lsquo;The Draft&rsquo;<\/em> and <em>&#8216;Audible&rsquo;<\/em>, one might\u2019ve imagined that the band were in for a career without getting out of first gear. One would\u2019ve been right as new EP, <em>&#8216;Disappear&rsquo;<\/em>, follows directly in the footsteps of its predecessors. <\/figure>\n<p>For all their formal monotony, it is still quite obvious how much the band have honed their skill. Every track here epitomizes what the band have been doing best for a while now: writing gentle, yet haunting, indie tracks, filled with the tangible emotion of Minton\u2019s vivid lyricism. If anything can be said to have changed, it is the general mood of the songs, which appear to be the result of an even deeper plunging into the angsty pits of self-loathing (which I mean in the best possible sense).<!-- more --><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2019Sometimes I find myself in an awful place \/ but I can pretend that I am not there\u2019 on <em>\u2019Sunday\u2019<\/em> is as discreetly brutal an opening line you\u2019re likely to find in an EP packed full with dark corners and pain-ridden memories. <em>\u2019Disappear\u2019<\/em> might be a small window into a terribly bleak internal world, but in truth the view is so tantalizing as to be impossible to look away. An essential EP.<\/p>\n<p>3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2019Disappear&rsquo;<\/em> EP by <strong>Football, etc<\/strong> is out on now on <strong>Count Your Lucky Stars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Football, etc.<\/strong> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/footballetc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"\/\/footballetc.wordpress.com\/%E2%80%9D\">WordPress<\/a>|<a href=\"\/\/footballetc.bandcamp.com\/%E2%80%9D\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by James Berclaz-Lewis (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bearclawlewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bearclawlewis<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my mind, Football, etc. have come to represent the very best the indie-emo niche has to offer. By which I mean that they transcend the genre\u2019s grating sentimentalism, aiming instead for magnetic melancholy, an effortless feat thanks to the moody softness of Lindsay Minton\u2019s haunting tones. 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