American Football Soars With Turnstile’s Brendan Yates

After previously teasing its inclusion on its upcoming album LP4, American Football’s collaboration with Turnstile vocalist Brendan Yates has arrived. The latter recorded his vocals for “No Feeling” the day after the band casually asked if he’d like to stop by producer Sonny DiPerri’s L.A. studio. 

“We have videos of him sitting on a couch at Sonny’s, learning the part, singing it and finding his voice in it,” American Football frontman Mike Kinsella tells SPIN. “By the time we stacked three harmonies on, we’re like, holy fuck, that sounds so awesome. He was singing harmonies I’d written but he’s like, I’m hearing one higher harmony. Can I try it? As soon as he sang it, all of us in the room were like, that’s Turnstile.”

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The second pre-release track from LP4, due May 1 from Polyvinyl, “No Feeling” is accompanied by a video directed by Cady Buche and Travis Barron of Unlimited Time Only. The clip is said to take “the form of a hallucinogenic animation that depicts ghost-like creatures aboard a sunken ship, dancing and celebrating their last moments before a submarine finds them deep underwater, pulling them above board and effectively sending these creatures into a spiral upon finding fresh air.”

After listening to the song for the first time, the pair say they “thought a lot about mysterious places like outer space and the bottom of the ocean — they’re beautiful and they also kind of freak you out. The music also brought to mind the idea of going down with the ship or a sense of crushing inevitability. Then we thought, what if you flipped that? What if you opened on a sunken ship and that was the beginning? What if this sunken ship were a thriving habitat for ghosts who live there? What if something came along that jeopardized their beautiful afterlife?”

Rainer Maria frontwoman Caithlin De Marrais and Wisp’s Natalie R. Lu make guest appearances on LP4, which will be supported with an extensive 2026 world tour. Dates begin May 15 in Denver and wraps up Aug. 16 in Minneapolis.

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