Songfacts®:

• "No Feeling" was released as the second single from American Football's fourth self-titled studio album, also known as LP4, which arrived on May 1, 2026. The melodic, melancholy song is sung from the perspective of someone who is completely numb emotionally, and apparently is terminally ill.
  
  The lyrics in the song's first verse seem to come from someone resigned and ready to die.
  
  As frontman Mike Kinsella sings:
  
  There's nothing new to say or do
  There's nothing new to crave
  Tell the doctors I'm done
  The kids, 'Adieu'
  And Mother, 'Désolé'
  One last goodbye and one last kiss
  One last dance with the Goddess Nyx
  
  "Désolé" is French for "I apologize," while Nyx is the powerful Greek goddess of the night, revered and even feared by Zeus, king of the gods.
• The chorus of "No Feeling" features guest harmony vocals by Brendan Yates, lead singer of the Baltimore-based alternative rock band Turnstile.
  
  Kinsella told NME that Yates initially was supposed be "one of many voices" on a call-and-response part Mike had written for the song's chorus. The plan changed after Yates asked if he could try singing a higher harmony part he thought would fit in the section.
  
  "As soon as he started singing it, all of our jaws dropped, and we all were looking at each other like 'Oh s--t! That's the dude from Turnstile!'" Kinsella recalled. "His voice is so singular, and once he sang the part in his range, it was clear that the part now belonged to him and him alone."
• Every American Football album is self-titled, so because this one is their fourth, it's known as LP4. It was released seven years after LP3.
  
  The group broke up after releasing their debut album in 1999 (LP1), but reunited in 2014 after it increasingly grew in popularity and influence. LP2 arrived in 2016, followed by LP3 in 2019.
  
  The long gap between LP3 and LP4 was due to various factors, including upheaval in the band members' personal lives, the pandemic, and intra-group conflicts. Drummer Steve Lamos actually quit American Football in 2021, but eventually had a change of heart, returning to the fold in 2023.
  
  "We were all going through things; adult, real-life stuff, inside and outside of the band," Lamos explained to DIYMag.com. "In the end, I missed it. I missed them."