Electro-rock band Anamanaguchi have launched their newest single, “Yeah I Guess.”
Out now through Polyvinyl Report Co, the only is Anamanaguchi’s first launch since their Anyway LP, which noticed the band transfer away from their highly-controlled digital manufacturing and musical type in favour of a definite hyperpunk type.
Earlier this yr, Anamanaguchi additionally launched their mammoth soundtrack to the Scott Pilgrim: EX online game, which featured way more of the chiptune-based sound they’ve made their very own over time.
“Yeah I Guess” feels extra acquainted than lots of the tracks that featured on Anyway, whereas nonetheless retaining robust parts of the pop-punk leanings from the final album. That includes fuzzy, vague vocals and fast – and half-rabid – synths, the marginally messy mixing solely serves so as to add to the vitality of the observe.
Based on vocalist and guitarist Peter Berkman, the observe was “impressed by Gene Wolfe’s “E-book of the New Solar’. [The track] is about realising you actually do have management over your individual life regardless of all of the forces appearing on you — and the unusual weight of that freedom.
“In a world designed to foretell programmed responses, what does it actually imply to behave freely? Punk music has all the time had a human feeling and I believe we made one thing that’s totally punk and totally digital.”
“Yeah I Guess” began out as a melody created on a Sport Boy, based on fellow vocalist/guitarist Ary Warnaar.
“[It] then changed into a very uncooked blown-out punk demo, which we then pushed by totally different software program till it changed into what it’s now. We’ve all the time seen the band and our expertise as productive and opposing forces, and with “Yeah I Guess” we needed to push them every so far as they’d go to see what got here out.”
Anamanaguchi are at present on tour supporting Madeon.
