Newtypical

Newyipcal is a 12-track Tape Lab album honoring the group’s longtime status as New Types—a nod to the Gundam universe, where Newtypes are humans with heightened intuition, expanded awareness, and an almost psychic ability to sense what others cannot. Naturally, Tape Lab.

For fans of Gundam-inspired music, Newtype mythology, experimental electro, anime-influenced beats, mecha soundtracks, cassette culture, and Tape Lab’s futuristic weirdness.

Built around electro-inspired ideas, mecha-era atmosphere, and anime-adjacent futurism, New Tyipcal channels the feeling of being slightly ahead of the signal. The album moves through robotic grooves, space-age synth textures, digital melancholy, and Tape Lab’s ongoing love of strange hero mythology. It is playful, but there is a real emotional current underneath the concept.

“Washed Out” is the most commercially appealing track here, bringing a clearer hook and smoother electronic momentum while still staying inside Tape Lab’s oddball orbit. “SMPLicate” slows things down with a more melancholic feel, offering one of the album’s moodier and more reflective moments. Across the full 12 tracks, New Tyipcal works as a Tape Lab transmission from the edge of the colony: part electro album, part Gundam-inspired meditation, part archive of what happens when too much intuition meets too many synths.