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David Hidalgo

Personnel: Gary Hoey (guitar)

The album is also stuffed with glitched-out television soundbites and vintage film clips

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IS A REAL BOY (LP) 04/29/2020 handclaps)Modern 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