It's fast and exciting, and packed with great melodies you'll probably want to hear over and over. “Rock Club” is probably the album's most aggressive track and certainly one of its best. “Cheap Shop” is a bit of a stylistic diversion, incorporating a bossa nova-influenced sound and some nice acoustic guitar.
Music made with an old game system seems like it could easily be cold and lifeless, but Anamanaguchi inject most of their songs with a very real sense of warmth. The next few tracks are a bit less memorable battle tunes, but “Suburban Tram” is another good song. The next song, “Another Winter,” is one of the standout tracks on the album and is worth giving a listen even if one is skeptical about the whole Nintendo-rock thing. This is immediately apparent on the opening track, “Scott Pilgrim Anthem,” which strikes a nice balance between epic and nostalgic feelings. Maybe the best thing about this soundtrack is the terrific sense of melody found throughout.
ANAMANAGUCHI SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD THE GAME SONGS FULL
The band's style is built around the 8-bit squawking of an original 1980s NES sound chip, and while there are other artists that make retro gaming-inspired music the same way, having a full rock band setup behind their electronic elements makes Anamanaguchi sound much more three-dimensional. I don't remember how I first came across the music of Anamanaguchi, but whether one likes so-called chiptune music or not, it certainly leaves an impression. Weirdly enough, I've never actually played the Scott Pilgrim video game, but the soundtrack quickly found constant rotation in my music library. So in part, at least, Anamanaguchi appeals to me because they make music that corresponds with my rosy and probably overly-idealistic vision of what 90s gaming looks like. Due to the long-lingering scars of my childhood gaming deprivation, I've come to hold classic games of the SNES era to an almost-hallowed level of respect despite the fact that I didn't get to play many of them. For some reason, computer games were okay, but no Nintendo or Sega for me. When I was a kid back in the 90s, I wasn't allowed to own a video game console. Review Summary: Anamanaguchi cooks up digital nostalgia with a heart.
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