Say Anything announces more album info

Say Anything will release its new album in early 2012.

The album, which is entitled Anarchy, My Dear, will be released via Equal Vision Records.

Singer Max Bemis, in an interview with Alternative Press, said the band’s new album was recorded with producer Tim O’Heir, who previously worked with the band on the …Is a Boy reissue. Bemis added this album will be different from its last two albums and is a different direction.

The best comparison I can make to […Is A Real Boy] versus the other [Say Anything] records [is] I feel like this one is an offshoot of the first record, [but] in a different direction. We kind of chose to go in a certain direction with the second two records [2007’s In Defense Of The Genre and 2009’s Say Anything], which I love; I would never knock that direction. On …Is a Real Boy there is a healthy mix of anthemic quality and then the quirky, odd, neurotic music that’s more of an offshoot of Queen or the Beatles or the Stones, that kind of an influence—versus Foo Fighters and more anthemic, big rock ’n’ roll. Even though we’ve always stayed a quirky, weird band, we kind of chose to go the route of [the latter], especially on the very last record we did. I feel like this one [is what would have happened] had we chosen to go in a different direction after …Is a Real Boy—it’s like a cousin of the other records as opposed to a brother or sister.

I’m certainly excited for this. Say Anything is one of the more ingenious bands around and it will be interesting to see what Bemis and co. bring us this time. In the meantime, Bemis is embarking on a solo tour in December. Dates are below: