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Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre
| Ew | | Say Anything's 2004 breakout album, ...Is a Real Boy — a sprawling rock opera penned by frontman Max Bemis, later diagnosed as bipolar — firmly established the six-piece as an indie band that thinks big. So it's no surprise that the Defense they mount on this two-disc, major-label follow-up, which expands on its predecessor's themes, is a very compelling one. With twice the anguished howls, twice the soul-baring lyrics, and twice the screeching guitars, In Defense of the Genre is easily one of the most ambitious artistic statements the emo scene's decade-plus development has offered....full text |
| | Sputnikmusic. | | If there was one record this year I truly thought was going to disappoint, it was In Defense of the Genre. Say Anything’s last album, …Is A Real Boy, while quite good, suffered from being way too long, as songs poured on chorus after chorus until you plainly started to get annoyed. Then, with the new this album would have two discs, on the inside I pretty much gave up on it. I hoped outwardly that it would be good, but I never really expected it to be anything but a worse version of …Is A Real Boy. When I actually heard In Defense of the Genre, I pretty much figured out what a giant idiot I am....full text |
| | Avclub | | "Baby Girl, I'm A Blur," the first single from Say Anything's new In Defense Of The Genre, is a lousy song—worse than that, it's misleading, considering that the album as a whole is far more intriguing. The two-disc set is an eclectic eruption of Max Bemis' teeming brain, a roiling stew of bile and hemorrhaged hearts that pits loops, scratches, metal riffs, and even showtune pop against nü-punk songcraft. The flashpoint is the title track: Although the word "emo" is absent, it's obvious which genre Bemis is referencing. But—as in the controversy-baiting "Died A Jew" and its incendiary line, "My people were slaves before yours invented hip-hop"—his stance is so wrapped in sarcasm, it's tough to pinpoint whether he's being straight, satirical, or both....full text |
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