IS A REAL BOY (LP) 04/29/2020 and perhaps even strange

and perhaps even strange

David Hidalgo

You have to bow down before John Carpenter & Alan Howarth

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Alaska (their second for Victory Records)

IS A REAL BOY (LP) 04/29/2020 and perhaps even strangeModern pop punk and emo are not usually known for depth but Say Anything bucked conventions with the complex, self reflexive IS A REAL BOY, a high minded concept album that tells as much about the band's real leader, Max Bemis, as it does about his fictional surrogate. Bemis's battle with bipolar disorder is dire, but the music he's crafted out of his troubles is colorful and busy, folding confessional lyrics into bright arrangements like the keyboard