On December 11, 2018, the first single from the album, "Silhouettes", was released, along with the band teasing a third project on Instagram,[3] and the listing for a third self-titled album appearing on Apple Music.

[4] Later that month, the band released a new single, "Uncomfortably Numb", which references the similarly titled song by Pink Floyd and features vocals from Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams.

It was released with an accompanying music video, starring former Workaholics star Blake Anderson and pro skater Paul Rodriguez.

American Football was met with highly positive reviews.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 80, based on 14 reviews.