Say Anything - Is A Real Boy (J)
By: Thomas Hannan
Let's tell you a little about Say Anything and '..is a Real Boy'. Here's what we know:
ONE - Say Anything consist of frontman Max Bemis and drummer Cody Linder, and whoever's around to play with 'em at the time.
TWO - '...is a Real Boy' is their debut proper, though quite a few prior, self recorded albums and eps are floating around out there somewhere. Check them.
THREE - It was first conceived as a concept album, a rock opera no-less, after Bemis became rather embarrassed about how generic the music he'd made prior to it had sounded.
FOUR - The sessions recording it were fraught to say the least, including one incident where our Max was taken in to hospital for several weeks, eventually being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
FIVE - You can listen to every last second of it HERE.