Today, Anamanaguchi, the band of Peter Berkman (guitar/vocals), Ary Warnaar (guitar/vocals), James DeVito (bass/vocals)  and Luke Silas (drums/vocals), has launched a new era with their hyperpunk single, “Yeah I Guess,” which is  out now through Polyvinyl Record Co. Debuting today on FLOOD Magazine, the anthemic follow-up to the band’s live-to-tape Anyway LP employs their signature maximalist digital production to create a hook-filled collage of blown-out punk, bedroom pop  and soaring, confident vocals.

Berkman explains: “I was inspired by Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. ‘Yeah I Guess’ is about realizing you really do have control over your own life despite all the forces acting on you–and the strange weight of that freedom. In a world designed to predict programmed responses, what does it really mean to act freely? Punk music has always had a human feeling and I think we made something that’s fully punk and fully digital.”  Warnaar adds: “The song started as a melody written on Game Boy, then turned into a really raw blown-out punk demo, which we then pushed through different software until it turned into what it is now. We’ve always seen the band and our technology as productive and opposing forces and with ‘Yeah I Guess’ we wanted to push them each as far as they’d go to see what came out.”

Photo Credit: Mehreen Rizvi