Chris DeVille, Stereogum:

Here’s a good bit: Rent out the American Football house, which is now an Airbnb, and write your own album there. Here’s a fun twist on that bit: Use the unique circumstances to execute a surprising aesthetic pivot.

Anamanaguchi, one of the world’s foremost chiptune bands, have announced their new album Anyway today. It’s a rock album with traditional rock instruments — i.e. not the video game music the band made its name on — and they wrote it in the Champaign, IL rental home pictured on the cover of twinkly, jazzy Midwest emo heroes American Football’s 1999 debut album. The house can also be seen on the cover of Anyway. American Football and their label Polyvinyl — which also happens to be Anamanaguchi’s label — now own the house, so securing it for a creative retreat was easy.

The first single, the very very good Weezer-and-or-Ozma influenced “Darcie”, has a video up here. The album, Anyway. releases on August 8th. I can’t wait!