Anamanaguchi's first album in 5 years, [USA], is out digitally today - stream now!

October 25, 2019

“With [USA], Anamanaguchi confidently take their seat at the table next to the most celebrated artists of "future pop" like Charli XCX, SOPHIE, and 100 gecs.” - The FADER

“It’s digital, it’s processed, but it’s so incredibly soaring and emotional… the sound just fills you up in this incredibly joyous and wonderful way.” - NPR

“At its core, [USA] is about trying to make sense of a world, picking apart language until it is unrecognizable, stripping away meaning until all you have left is raw abstract emotion.” - PAPER

“Nerdy fabulism might be their claim to fame, but on this LP, they’re as real as it gets.” - Bandcamp Daily

Ananamanaguchi's [USA], the long awaited follow-up to 2013's Endless Fantasy, is available everywhere digitally today. Limited copies remain of the 2xLP Early Bird on Electric Blue & Bone Yellow vinyl (shown above). Grab yours now from the Polyvinyl Store ahead of the November 15th physical release. Stream the album in full on all your fav digi outlets now ~

The first leg of the band's [USA] tour begins on 10/30 with full-day Expos happening in Austin and Chicago. Additional 2020 dates have announced, including visits to Europe and the UK. Tickets onsale now.

Anamanaguchi is a four-piece band from New York and Los Angeles made up of Peter Berkman, Ary Warnaar, James DeVito, and Luke Silas. They program and perform intensely emotional digital music, and also once sent a slice of pizza into space.

Since forming in the mid-2000s, Anamanaguchi have been revered as pioneers in the homemade, video game world of chiptune music: they combine a loud and fast live band with hyper-melodic squarewaves from hacked Nintendo hardware. Their earliest releases have been distributed on NES cartridges you can actually play, and in 2010 they created the official soundtrack to the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World game.

In 2013, Anamanaguchi self-released the Endless Fantasy album backed by an out-of-control Kickstarter campaign that brought in $275,000, more than five times their goal. In 2016, they parodied corporate gaming culture by making a free game, including an original full-length soundtrack, titled Capsule Silence XXIV. Recently, they’ve collaborated on a single with the computer-generated Japanese pop star Hatsune Miku, and were the first independent artists to perform alongside her hologram on tour.

Though the band has always been inventive, [USA] is a significant progression. For years, Anamanaguchi presented an optimistic, overdriven version of art on the internet. [USA] is equally ambitious in its world-building, but it marks a departure that is in part sonic — they employ a much wider palette of sounds and voices, both synthetic and human, than ever before — as well as conceptual: perhaps for the first time, Anamanaguchi confront reality.