Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 55

I agree with the last two, but bleed American imo is way harder than anything on clarity

 

I think it's aggressive in a similar way that Your New Aesthetic is.

 

Man, I gotta listen to Clarity now. It's been a little while.

 

actually yeah I can see that

 

Ultimately, I do agree that they made a decently sized leap from Clarity to Bleed American, but I do think BA still definitely carries traces of the Clarity with it.

 

Haha I figured you'd bring up YNA. I really don't feel like that song is all that aggressive honestly

 

I do agree with you on this, but I think the key is for me that every record after Clarity (except Damage) feels so much more glossy than Clarity.

 

Aside from Authority Song the last few songs on BA are very Clarity influenced

 

Dark might be a better word. It's certainly darker than most other JEW tracks

 

And I feel like after Clarity their songwriting generally got more straightforward and melody centric

 

Lol tas is such a weird inclusion on the back end of that album

 

Yeah, I can agree w that

 

Maybe aggressive wasn't the right word for me to use. Perhaps edgy? I think both songs definitely have a bite to them.

Then yeah I definitely agree with you as far as their sonic direction goes.

 

I don't hear it in Get It Faster. Cautioners and My Sundown are the only two I think you could realistically stick on Clarity and have it maybe sorta fit

 

Authority Song is in such a weird place on BA. It should be switched with Get It Faster imo

 

I totally get what you mean with that, I just don't think that bleed American would fit so well on clarity haha. To be fair, I consider it on outlier on bleed american too tho

 

So in that sense it was probably wrong of me to call Clarity inaccessible, I experienced it as such because I'm a fan of more glossy and pop driven music

 

I could see get it faster being a set up to my sundown. Damn. That would actually be cool. Might like the song better like that

It's almost like bleed is split completely in half with pop songs on the front half and ballads/relatively more experimental songs on the back half...except authority song haha

 

I sometimes forget that Static Prevails and Clarity were major label records. It seems crazy now, not to mention the fact that Bleed American was recorded without a label.

 

Yeah exactly! It's almost like they were in the studio and thought "is this too poppy maybe? Should we maybe put in some darker/more experimental tracks for the Clarity lovers?" Or something.

 

I figured Get It Faster would be a stretch haha. To me, it's got that darker feel to it that Ken described for YNA

 

That almost synthetic "whip" sound effect at the beginning of Get It Faster is so cool.

 

I wish I liked get it faster

 

Clarity is the only JEW record @Jose visits regularly. Granted, he has only listened to that and Futures, and he's been meaning to revisit Futures for a while now (psst go do that)

 

It's fucking crazy to me that JEW got dropped from their label after releasing Clarity