★★★★★
Anamanaguchi sound like Tumblr exploding. Their chip-tune adventure through everything from house to pop punk, J-Pop to post-rock is a giddy ride, and it ensures the listening experience is one to match. It's like being in a parade dedicated to their twin deities Megaman and Nyancat, travelling along Rainbow Road on a bizarro float built from ancient video game consoles, gifs of flying sloths, and dodgy MySpace HTML. This might be just your cup of tea or veritable aural napalm...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-10-10
★★★★★
In more than one discussion, I have described a particular track or album as, for want of a better phrase, 'videogamey'. Believe me when I say this is a sincere compliment. If you're reading this review, there's a fair chance that like me, videogames were a big part of your childhood. Neon splashes of coloured pixels, blowing out the inside of a cartridge to make it work, unnaturally bright Sega skies - these memories slot alongside riding a bike for the first time, or the last day at primary...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-10-08
★★★★★
Anamanaguchi make unapologetically saccharine, enthusiastic power pop out of guitars, bass, drums and a hacked 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. (Think peppier, less pissed-off Crystal Castles.) If that sounds good to you, then let's hope your appetite lasts for 22 songs. If it sounds the slightest bit irritating, stay away. Endless Fantasy is music for diehards...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-05-23
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare Endless Pop Repetition If you're searching for the human element in your music, there is no need to read any further. Anamanaguchi's squeaky clean album, Endless Fantasy, sounds like a 1980s Nintendo version of what music will be in the future (visions of Super Mario will dance in your head). It's punchy, bright, ultra-melodic, and often feels like Andrew W.K. compressed into elevator music that was then rendered into a midi-file...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-05-18
★★★★★
As a genre, 8-bit punk is, unfortunately, underrated. Using old computer game gizmos as their main source of instrumentation, bands from around the globe have for years created blippy and bloppy tunes, tinted with the sounds of rudimentary electronics, that echo everything from "Super Mario Bros." to the Sex Pistols...
- www.lostatsea.net
2009-10-30
★★★★★
There's something OCD about the insanely single-minded aesthetic of Anamanaguchi. The band has appropriated more than just the music of the 8-bit videogame era, but taken its obsession to the point of creating videos for the songs as well. The videos capture all of the low-fi pixellation of the early Nintendo graphics and feature sequences that bring the songs to animated life. Scoring music for videogames used to be the way things were done...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
That's a rhetorical question. And the snags? Hardly worth evaluating. One might expect completists to turn their noses down at screeches being diluted with Fender hooks, but the 8-bit community has carried Dawn Metropolis with pride, many of the hardliners proclaiming their jealousy that someone's finally made a touchstone for their cause célèbre. Even the fanatics who refuse to join in can at least appreciate the "vainglorious embeds":http://www.dawnmetropolis...
- www.cokemachineglow.com
2009-07-10
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