Say Anything - …IS COMMITTED [Indie Exclusive BLACK MARBLE 2XLP]

..Is Committed represents both a return to form and a mid-career left turn. Bemis still traffics in
exaggeration and Jewish humor, 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, jampacked 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 a
jarring 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 Com
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 1
10. Daisy's 1
11. Woman Song 1
12. Fan Fiction

*** Indie Exclusive ***
UPC: 821826037823
Label: DINE ALONE RECORDS
Release Date: 6.14.24
Format: Vinyl