Say Anything has posted a progress report on their forthcoming album In Defense of the Genre. Vocalist Max Bemis reported that they're currently 65-70 percent done tracking the record and have completed drums, bass and guitar work on 95 percent of the songs. Bemis also noted that there are currently a lot of songs on the record, friends from various projects and bands will be involved in singing and playing on the record, and that the album is another concept record but "this time (tentatively) the songs will appear in order of the story they tell, which is far more direct and personal than the last record's story."

In Defense of the Genre will be the proper follow-up to 2004's …Is A Real Boy.