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This process would allow the band to write together while continuing to uphold the legacy of classic trackers in video game music and chiptune, helping to preserve a compositional artform intrinsically loved by the band’s members that, due to the widespread availability of modern DAWs, could be at risk of being lost to time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Anamanaguchi’s work has continued to develop since their initial collaboration within the Scott Pilgrim universe, the cultural footprint of Scott Pilgrim has evolved as well. 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Nate Kinsella devised an elaborate system of scratch tracks and modular demos, allowing ideas to evolve before the band ever entered the studio, while touring members Cory Bracken and Mike Garzon added the kinds of subtle touches that have made them indispensable onstage. “This record would not exist in the way it does without Nate masterminding a lot of the sonic details,” Holmes says. “He’s our Brian Eno or Jonny Greenwood.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is American Football’s most sonically ambitious album: layered, dissonant, occasionally confrontational and always deeply felt. 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