In the same way that Meek Mill’s “Dreams and Nightmares (Intro)” serves as an adrenaline shot to help shake off self-doubt and depression, the songs on …Is Committed are meant to be played at pulverizing volume. These are sing-a-longs for listeners to shred their larynxes. Raw power tapping into atavistic rage, and offering catharsis for anyone who has ever felt like the world was conspiring against them.

The album represents both a return to form and a mid-career left turn. Bemis still traffics in exaggeration and Jewish humour, but the hyperbole has been tempered by the blows of reality. This is no longer the angst of post-adolescence, but the grim phantasms of adulthood. Coming full circle in a sense, Bemis says these are the most autobiographical songs that he’s written since high school.

…Is Committed is as much an album as a labyrinth, a therapy session kvetch, a conflagration of obscene horror, familial distress, and humanistic lament. A defining capstone to a period of blinding trauma that has only now begun to heal. You probably already knew that anesthetized bliss was never in the cards. After all, the closest thing to a happy ending in real life is one that is bittersweet.

Label
Cooking Vinyl
Genre
Punk & Hardcore LP - SIDE A
BE, CHILDREN (INTRODUCTION TO THE REUNION RECORD)
ON CUM
AUTO-HARMONIC ASS FIXATION
I, VIBRATOR
LP - SIDE B
PSYCHE!
WE SAY GRACE IN THIS GODDAMN BAND, MISTER
CARRIE & LOWELL & CODY (PENDENT)
ARE YOU (IN) THERE?
LP - SIDE C
SAY ANYTHING, COLLECTIVELY, MADE LOVE TO YOUR GOD
DAISYS
WOMAN SONG
LP - SIDE D
FAN FICTION

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