Say Anything share barn burning new single "ON CUM" from new LP
SAY ANYTHING SHARE BARN BURNING NEW SINGLE
“ON CUM”
...IS COMMITTED
OUT MAY 24TH VIA DINE ALONE RECORDS
Say Anything Tour Dates: [Purchase Tickets]
04/27/24 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues Dallas
04/28/24 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues Houston
04/30/24 - Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
05/01/24 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Orlando
05/03/24 - Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz Raleigh
05/04/24 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia
05/05/24 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
05/07/24 - Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live!
05/08/24 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
05/09/24 - New York City, NY @ Rough Trade (Acoustic Performance)
05/10/24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
05/11/24 - Montclair, NJ @ The Wellmont
05/12/24 - Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
05/14/24 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues Cleveland
05/15/24 - Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre
05/17/24 - Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
05/18/24 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
05/19/24 - Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
06/13/24 - Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
06/14/24 - Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
06/15/24 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
06/17/24 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
06/18/24 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
06/19/24 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
06/21/24 - San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
06/22/24 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
06/24/24 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues Anaheim
06/26/24 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Burn
06/28/24 - Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheatre
06/29/24 - Fort Worth, TX @ Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall
10/19-20 - Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young
Last month, Max Bemis and his band Say Anything revealed details of their first album since 2019, the aptly-titled …Is Committed, due May 24 on Dine Alone Records. Today, the band is sharing the LP’s second song, “ON CUM.” It’s a textbook ripper, packed with allusions to the bands that formed the soundtrack to Emo Nite and the When We Were Young Festival, which the band is set to perform at in October. It has a chopping punk thrash backbeat, a battering NOFX-style second verse attack, and an idiosyncratic and emotional outro, with Bemis crooning “I’m Brandon Boyd-ing out in this son of a b***h.” Paste premiered the song this morning, writing “In their new era, Say Anything can't help but run wild through brash technicolor.”
Speaking on the new song, Bemis said in a statement that “"ON CUM" is an ode to the sanctity of having a second song on any uppity record that at least attempts to truly "knock.” The "chopping steak" beat being included is the evidence we weren't content to only half-knock when "Monkey Wrench" still exists.”
The new song follows on the heels of previously released singles “PSYCHE!,” “ARE YOU (IN) THERE?,” “CARRIE & LOWELL & CODY (PENDENT),” a song about codependency, alienation, and resolving conflict with the ones closest to you, and most recently, “I, VIBRATOR,” in which Bemis lampoons the traditional “for the ladies” song by writing about his desire to be a disembodied vibrator used as a tool of female sexual empowerment.
In the same way that Meek Mill’s “Dreams and Nightmares (Intro)” serves as an adrenaline shot to help shake off self-doubt and depression, the songs on …Is Committed are meant to be played at pulverizing volume. These are sing-a-longs for listeners to shred their larynxes. Raw power tapping into atavistic rage, and offering catharsis for anyone who has ever felt like the world was conspiring against them.
The album 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.
…Is Committed is as much an album as a labyrinth, a therapy session kvetch, a conflagration of obscene horror, familial distress, and humanistic lament. A defining capstone to a period of blinding trauma that has only now begun to heal. You probably already knew that anesthetized bliss was never in the cards. After all, the closest thing to a happy ending in real life is one that is bittersweet.