SAY ANYTHING 04/24/2001 Wild Things

Wild Things

London England (1970-2002)

A2                   Alison Hell

while Fitz & the Tantrums' contemporary dance-pop sound is decades away from the aesthetic of their debut

leaving a nearly perfect homage to a lost pop era that probably never existed but that never-say-die types like Schneider believe in nonetheless

SAY ANYTHING 04/24/2001 Wild ThingsClocking in at 46 minutes nearly half the running time of 2007's IN DEFENSE OF THE GENRE Say Anything's fourth album is both trim and tuneful, with Sam Bemis devoting more focus than ever to the tightening of his quirky, unchained pop songs. "Focus" is a relative term, of course; the frontman still finds time to run wild throughout this disc, rearranging conventional song structures like Picasso and sampling from multiple genres emo, rock, punk pop,