Wavves x Say Anything

Cherry Soda brings together Wavves’ Nathan Williams and Say Anything’s Max Bemis for a ten-song collaborative album due September 18, 2026 via I Surrender Records. Produced by Aaron Rubin (Blink-182), the record was written around a simple but sharp idea from Williams: what would an early-2000s Wavves emo record sound like?

The lead single, “Deathx1k,” introduces that crossover point with a claymation video directed by Stephen Coad. The album leans into the shared overlap between Williams’ fuzzed-out, hook-heavy punk-pop and Bemis’ diaristic emo songwriting, with each writer pushing the other into less expected territory.

Williams said he wanted “to make a mall emo record,” while Bemis noted that the collaboration pulled different sides out of both artists: “He became more emo and I became more Wavves-y.” The result is a meeting point between two bands with long histories of collaboration and a new batch of songs built specifically around that collision.