ANAMANAGUCHI + COVET | PYGMALION 2026
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Doors TBD | Show TBD | 18+ | EARLY SHOW
Last summer, after living across the country from each other for several years, the four members of Anamanaguchi decided to try something new. Their label Polyvinyl had rescued the famed American Football house from potential destruction, so the band took the opportunity to move in and write together. Over the course of a month, Anamanaguchi – pioneers of hyper-melodic 8-bit rock, whose extraordinary ascent has led them to topping charts with a virtual pop star – flipped their typically meticulous digital process on its head. The result is Anyway. Written in the converted living room-turned-practice space, Anamanaguchi walked away with the most personal record of their career. And it’s a rock record for the ages.
Formed in New York in the mid-2000s, Anamanaguchi made their name with emotionally-charged turbo-electric experiments in chiptune. Known for programming their early music on Nintendo cartridges you can actually play, their accomplishments include scoring Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game and launching one of music’s most successful crowdfunded projects to this day with their Kickstarter for their debut album Endless Fantasy. The band’s reputation for innovation grew worldwide, leading them to develop and release their own experimental video game (Capsule Silence XXIV), as well as to officially collaborate and perform with the virtual pop star Hatsune Miku on her hologram tour (their collaborative hit “Miku” is not just her biggest English language song to date, it’s also recently a prominent music fixture of Epic Games’ global smash hit Fortnite). They even launched a pizza into space.
Covet is the baby and brainchild of guitarist and songwriter/composer Yvette Young, conceived as a sort-of-rebellion against and simultaneously an extension of her classical roots. The band was founded in the Bay Area, California, with the intention of fusing lush post-rock soundscapes with the more intricate elements of progressive music, with melody and emotion at the forefront, evolving with each release. The name came from Yvette’s love for the band Basement, as well as a fondness for the meaning of the word: to want something really badly, which is what the whole creative process feels like to her: a sort of yearning.
Last summer, after living across the country from each other for several years, the four members of Anamanaguchi decided to try something new. Their label Polyvinyl had rescued the famed American Football house from potential destruction, so the band took the opportunity to move in and write together. Over the course of a month, Anamanaguchi – pioneers of hyper-melodic 8-bit rock, whose extraordinary ascent has led them to topping charts with a virtual pop star – flipped their typically meticulous digital process on its head. The result is Anyway. Written in the converted living room-turned-practice space, Anamanaguchi walked away with the most personal record of their career. And it’s a rock record for the ages.
Formed in New York in the mid-2000s, Anamanaguchi made their name with emotionally-charged turbo-electric experiments in chiptune. Known for programming their early music on Nintendo cartridges you can actually play, their accomplishments include scoring Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game and launching one of music’s most successful crowdfunded projects to this day with their Kickstarter for their debut album Endless Fantasy. The band’s reputation for innovation grew worldwide, leading them to develop and release their own experimental video game (Capsule Silence XXIV), as well as to officially collaborate and perform with the virtual pop star Hatsune Miku on her hologram tour (their collaborative hit “Miku” is not just her biggest English language song to date, it’s also recently a prominent music fixture of Epic Games’ global smash hit Fortnite). They even launched a pizza into space.
Covet is the baby and brainchild of guitarist and songwriter/composer Yvette Young, conceived as a sort-of-rebellion against and simultaneously an extension of her classical roots. The band was founded in the Bay Area, California, with the intention of fusing lush post-rock soundscapes with the more intricate elements of progressive music, with melody and emotion at the forefront, evolving with each release. The name came from Yvette’s love for the band Basement, as well as a fondness for the meaning of the word: to want something really badly, which is what the whole creative process feels like to her: a sort of yearning.
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