Phillip Miller plays guitar in the Sacremento band, Alan Heart of the Lion who play emo/screamo/passionately sad music. He also likes to make old-school video game soundtracks. Hecka Sad Chips is a combination of those two things: emotional music and video games; the result: chiptune emo. Well, sort of...
Hecka Sad Chips features 10 songs by relatively emo-y/screamo-y/melodic hardcore bands turned into 8bit video game-sounding gems. They don't really sound sad, but rather like they came straight from that Game Boy Color that you totally still have kicking around somewhere. You know what I mean.
The bands included in the chiptune transformation include some bands I'm pretty familiar with like CityCop, Comadre, Tiny Moving Parts, and Kidcrash along with a few other sweet new finds like Missive, Leer, Kite Runner, Place Called Home, and Phillip Miller's aforementioned band, Alan Heart of the Lion.
The cover of Hecka Sad Chips also features an old-school video game/pixel art transformation of Place Called Home's Eternal Sunshine (2012), CityCop's Family Tides/Labors of Love split w/Les Doux (2013), Tiny Moving Parts's This Line is Long & Full of Friendship (2013), and Missive's Not a Minute Goes By (2012) album artwork.
Enjoy!
Facebook (Alan Heart of the Lion)
Bandcamp
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