Say Anything reveal title, tracklisting of new album Say Anything …Is Committed

Ahead of their appearance at this year’s When We Were Young festival, Say Anything shared an early look at the title and tracklisting of their forthcoming album, Say Anything …Is Committed, with Alternative Press.

To accompany the reveal, Say Anything released the new cut “Carrie & Lowell & Cody (Pendent),” one that shows his love for Sufjan Stevens and his knockout record Carrie & Lowell. The LP also includes singles “Psyche!,” which we called “a riveting, uplifting emo anthem,” and “Are (You) In There?” Brad Wood (Sunny Day Real Estate, Mewithoutyou), who previously worked on the 2007 double album …In Defense of the Genre, is back as producer.

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“‘Carrie & Lowell & Cody (Pendent)’ is named, with the brevity of an early Minus the Bear track, after my affinity for Sufjan Stevens’ titular album about his mommy issues,” Max Bemis shares. “I adore my mom to death and grew up both sparring and worshiping her, enmeshing myself in both her emotional genius and warmth and the wealth of generational trauma she inherited from her Holocaust-laden family. It took until middle age for us to get into our first real, heinous fight, replete with actual stakes and a brief ‘let’s pretend we’re never going to talk again’ period.

“I wrote this song, and much of our forthcoming record, during a period of such searing trauma and loneliness that not having my parental BFF by my proverbial side felt like an affront even if my mom was just trying to deal with other issues that come with being a child-soul with grown-person decisions to make,” he continues. “Just like her bipolar pervert of a son. We in the SA camp figured serving y’all a spazzy, weird one after that last poppy jam would be fun, too, so here it is, with all the time changes and Sherri vocals you’ve come to expect.”

Next year will certainly be big for the group, as they’re gearing up for the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough album, …Is A Real Boy, and have new music on the way.

See the tracklisting and hear “Carrie & Lowell & Cody (Pendent)” below.

Say Anything …Is Committed tracklisting

“Introduction to the Reunion Record”
“Psyche!”
“Are (You) In There?”
“Carrie & Lowell & Cody (Pendent)”
“I, Vibrator”
“Auto-Harmonic Ass Fixation”
“We Say Grace in This Goddamn Band, Mister”
“Say Anything, Collectively, Made Love to God”
“Nardo”
“On Cum” 
“Decent Scar, Brah”
“Woman’s Song”
“Fan Fiction”