Anamanaguchi

As technology gets more advanced and pop music relies more heavily on Auto-Tune, there is, as always, a counter-culture movement that looks to previous decades for its answers. As the 8-bit genre—music written with synthesizers emulating old-school video-game-system sounds—becomes increasingly prevalent, it also gets flooded with countless me-too bands. New York’s Anamanaguchi isn’t the first and certainly won’t be the last band to crank out original songs that could easily double as the soundtrack to a series of boss-battles in Mega Man, but it arguably does it better than its peers—which is probably why they were picked to score the game based on the ultimate in boss-battles, last year’s Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.

Updated 12/17/2010