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.

Don't miss the chance to experience one of music most inventive bands live for the very first time

in Australia.