As adolescent boys stuck in the bearded bodies of twenty-somethings, the American Autumn is able to straddle both sides of a very tricky spectrum. They play power pop-punk, a genre of music that typically appeals to teeny-boppers, tinted (or jaded) with the sort of mandatory maturity that haunts all young adults. Whether they have made some pseudo-intellectual decision to do so or it’s com- pletely subconscious, everything that the American Autumn does is, at once, about both innocence and experience.