For their fourth studio album, New York-based chiptune band Anamanaguchi moved into the Urbana, Illinois house immortalized on the cover of the first American Football album. The building had been purchased by a collective including American Football and Polyvinyl Records, who made it available to artists as a creative space. The group wrote the album’s songs together in the house, rather than their usual process of sending files to each other through the Internet, then recorded the material with producer Dave Fridmann at his Tarbox Road Studios in Western New York. Not only is Anyway the most traditionally written and recorded work Anamanaguchi have made as a band, it’s easily their most lyrical and guitar-driven effort. The 8-bit melodies are still…

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