Footballhead - Overthinking Everything [Purple Vinyl]

Cat. no: LPTE206C
Format: LP Purple Vinyl
Barcode: 634457161955
Release Date: 01 Mar 2024
Genre: Indie

Footballhead is a Chicago-based alternative rock band headed by singer/
songwriter Ryan Nolen - At its heart, the band is a vessel to toil forward
through internal and external insecurity
It also serves the unrelenting spirit of new- millennium Midwestern youth, with
MTV and skatepark dreams in the core of their memories. By blending pop
structures with alt and emo sounds, Footballhead channels the frantic, dramatic,
and anthemic to map the pressure points of existence. It's outcast music,
revitalized in search of a modern, blissful awakening.
Nolen was a skate kid from the western Chicago suburbs; the one who only
kicked it with older neighborhood kids. The punkish attitude of late-90s and earlyaughts alt-rock galvanized Nolen, from the infectiously fun music down to the
fashion. A teenage relocation to Palm Springs, CA coincided with Nolen
inundating himself with all the music he could: Warped Tour, 411 videos,
Limewire, and the like. The Footballhead ethos comes from this comfort zone of
pop impulses and raucous energy, carried by a DIY spirit that grants Nolen the
autonomy to facilitate honesty and refection.
Joined by Adam Siska, snow ellet, Liam Burns, and Robbie Kuntz, Footballhead
crafts supercharged rock songs like brief, open secrets. However weathered one
is from their struggles and mistakes, this music offers unbridled fun as a reprieve,
and salves for the shaken. These are your old friends inviting you in to
commiserate, elevate, and believe.
Tracks: Rug / Snowball / Tightrope / Like A Blister / Habits / Talking Nonsense /
Are You Sorry On The Way Back Down? / Ugly Day / Pilot / Etched You In / So I
Stay (Petty) / My Plan / Overthinking Everything