Say Anything

SAY ANYTHING’s fourth full-length is an exercise in acute self-awareness: The pop-punk hookfest "Hate Everyone" satirizes misanthropy while bathing in it, and the earnest electro-pop love ballad "Crush'd" cops to dyslexia, "mild manorexia," and "a disturbing Oedipal complex." The music doesn't always keep up with Bemis' self-absorbed lyrical jujitsu, but there's definite charm in the struggle.