In Defense Of The Genre

• 2LP, 180 gram audiophile black vinyl.

In 2000, Max Bernis formed the American rock band Say Anything together with some friends. Up until 2018, when the band went on a hiatus, they released eight studio albums. In 2007 they released their third studio album In Defense of the Genre. Bernis mentioned on the album that “musically, it’s different, more mature and somewhat more cohesive and poppy, but darker in a whole different way”.

The album features 23 individual guest appearances, including Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance), Pete Yorn, Anna Waronker (That Dog), Adam Lazzara (Talking Back Sunday), Aaron Gillespie (Underoath, The Almost), Matt Skiba (Blink-182, Alkaline Trio) and Haylay Williams (Paramore) amongst others. The cover art was designed by Jeff Smith, who is best known as the creator of the comic book series Bone.

A1 Skinny, Mean Mean
A2 No Soul
A3 That Is Why
A4 Surgically Removing The Tracking Device
A5 This Is F***ing Ecstacy
A6 The Church Channel
A7 Shiksa (Girlfriend)
B1 Baby Girl, I’m A Blur
B2 Retarded In Love
B3 People Like You Are Why People Like Me Exist
B4 Died A Jew
B5 An Insult To The Dead
B6 Sorry, Dudes. My Bad.
B7 Spay Me

C1 In Defense Of The Genre
C2 The Truth Is, You Should Lie With Me
C3 The World You Wield
C4 Vexed
C5 About Falling
C6 You’re The Wanker, If Anyone Is
C7 Spores
D1 We Killed It
D2 Have At Thee!
D3 Hangover Song
D4 Goodbye Young Tutor, You’ve Now Outgrown Me
D5 I Used To Have A Heart
D6 Plea