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Oct 06, 2025 By Caleb Campbell

New York-based composer and indie singer/songwriter Kali Flanagan has been steadily recording and playing gigs for years now, even dating back to his grade-school days. Last year he released Tow Truck Jesus, his debut album under the moniker Superfan. Late in the year, he also shared a collection of covers, Forging Seasonal Signature With My Guitar, before returning this summer with a new single, “Miss W Jones.”

That early single is the first taste of his next project, due out early next year. Today, he’s sharing another new track, “Apeiron (Fantasy Football),” premiering with Under the Radar.

“Apeiron (Fantasy Football) finds Superfan adding resonant layers to his dense and churning noise folk, dousing the turbulent downtuned acoustic guitars with a bleary haze of sitar drones, constantly shifting rhythms, and cello contributions from Omeed Almassi (bar italia). The results feel like an exploratory descent into texture and tempo. Flanegan’s vocals are similarly restless, moving between a low, intimate murmur and moments of roiling passion. Sometimes he blends into the discord, and elsewhere he rises above it, eventually leading the track to a spikey and dissonant finale as he intones a final declaration: “I don’t believe in fantasy football.”

Flanegan says of the track, “I wrote Apeiron (Fantasy Football) to be a kind of epic, reflecting on what personal agency one can have juxtaposed with the endless uncertainties of life. I took inspiration from Anne Carson’s usage of Apeiron, (which is a word in Greek philosophy meaning the infinite, indefinite, etc) The notion of fluctuating time signatures and the resonance of the acoustics in the main riff plus sitar drones that were sampled from an archive of Ragas, is a nod to my Indian heritage…foreshadowing the future of Superfan which recalls more middle eastern influence, between my cellist Omeed, who is Iranian and myself, an exploration of where we’re from and the vast expanse of non-western music.

Essentially, the song resolves to state ‘I don’t believe in Fantasy Football’ meaning why place bets on something that has no stake in reality, which in context with the chorus ‘birds have passage…repeating colors of fate’ is meant to signify that things have their way of working out…but there’s this balance of holding yourself accountable and kicking your feet back watching the fireworks.”

Check out the song below, out everywhere now.