Anamanaguchi Australian Tour

New York chiptune pioneers Anamanaguchi have announced their first ever Australian tour, finally bringing their live show to Australia this October. Tickets go on sale Monday 4 August at 9am local time via Destroy All Lines, with an exclusive presale beginning Monday 3 August from 9am local time. Anamanaguchi will bring with them their latest record, Anyway, which came about from the same uncertainty they faced in their 2019 album [USA], a record that turned the band’s digital language toward the physical world: American dread, internet overload, national identity, and the strange and terrifying feeling of living inside systems too big to see. With digital textures, glitched production and vast EDM landscapes, Anamanaguchi portrayed a world that no longer felt human but showed the joy, excitement and emotion that could still overflow from those constraints. The digital rock band formed mostly in New York City had always called the internet their "hometown", but they no longer saw that as a badge of honor. Anyway is a band-first album: the sound of four friends living inside an inhuman war machine, believing in each other and reaching to the outside world. It also happens to rock. Since their starting days on online forums, Anamanaguchi have been pushing the limits of what "counts" as a band: programming music on video game consoles, releasing free EPs through netlabels, headlining festivals in Minecraft, collaborating with Hatsune Miku, Rocket League, and the wider culture of games, platforms, and screens. But on Anyway they decided to go to the opposite end of their online upbringing: taking on the forgotten annals of emo, punk, and indie music to make something that could only be made by friends in a room: fuzzy guitars, strained vocals, group harmonies, explosive drums, and melodies that feel less like escapism than survival. The result is the band’s most direct and human record yet. Their hypermelodic style takes a backseat to simplicity believing that even inside the machine, something real can still happen. They are currently preparing ANYWAY FOR REAL, a version of Anyway where the aliens of the digital world invade their analog island fortress.