Say Anything - ...Is Committed [PRE-ORDER]

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PRE-ORDER AND WILL ARRIVE ON OR AROUND JUNE 14, 2024

..Is Committed represents both a return to form and a mid-career left turn. Bemis still traffics in exaggeration and Jewish humour, but the hyperbole has been tempered by the blows of reality. This is no longer the angst of post-adolescence, but the grim phantasms of adulthood. Coming full circle in a sense, Bemis says these are the most autobiographical songs that he’s written since high school.

As with any Say Anything record, the songs are rollicking and self-referential, jam packed with meta-references and in-jokes. Before “lore” became a Gen Z cliché, Bemis was employing it was still called “world-building.”

The opener “BE, CHILDREN (INTRODUCTION TO THE REUNION RECORD)” starts off with what might as well be a mission statement: “to the self-indulgent/indulge yourself with me.” It’s partially a satire of a reunion song, but filled with ajarring and uncomfortable honesty that belies the tongue-in-cheek humor. It also rocks hard. Bemis did not bring Say Anything back to make an Iron & Wine record.

Tracklist:
1. BE, CHILDREN (INTRODUCTION TO THE REUNION RECORD) 
2. ON CUM
3. AUTO-HARMONIC ASS FIXATION
4. I, VIBRATOR
5. PSYCHE!
6. WE SAY GRACE IN THIS GODDAMN BAND, MISTER
7. CARRIE & LOWELL & CODY (PENDENT)
8. ARE YOU (IN) THERE?
9. SAY ANYTHING, COLLECTIVELY, MADE LOVE TO YOUR GOD
10. DAISY'S
11. WOMAN SONG
12. FAN FICTION