AMERICAN FOOTBALL RELEASE TOUCHING VIDEO FOR ‘MY INSTINCTS ARE THE ENEMY’ 

With AMERICAN FOOTBALL’s brand new self-titled finally hitting the airwaves on Wichita Recordings last week, they’ve also shared a video for single My Instincts Are The Enemy. 

 Directed by Chris Strong and with sequences filmed in Japan (Tokyo, Matsumoto, and Nagoya) and Toluca, Illinois, the video “imagines a Japanese character temporarily living in small town central Illinois missing his home.” Strong goes on to share the following about the video:

“I was initially asked to think of some ideas for videos on November 14, a week after Donald Trump was elected president and the same week the first trailer was released for the new Ghost in the Shell movie. There was a lot of talk in the news around that time about the reality for foreigners in the United States. There was also a lot of discussion surrounding the mostly white cast of Ghost in the Shell and the depiction of Japanese people in American film. Since the first American Football video for Never Meant had so many Caucasians, I thought it might be interesting to do something that used exclusively Japanese and Japanese-Americans… Mike Kinsella and the band’s manager gave me the names of eight people they knew from previous music tours in Japan, and these people then helped to connect us with people in Japan who were interested in taking part.”

AMERICAN FOOTBALL are touring this summer and autumn in support of the new album, playing select dates and festivals across the US, Japan, Europe, and the UK. Check out those mainland dates below.  

TOUR DATES

01.09 Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
02.09 Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall 
03.09 Edinburgh, UK @ Summerhall
04.09 Dublin, IE @ Button Factory