No way we don't get something new in 2024 Jimmy Eat World’s “focused on putting together an album”: “We’re taking our time” – 98KUPD – Arizona's Real Rock
Guessing they do another single for the FOB tour, then an album in the fall around When We Were Young and whatever touring they do around that. I don't want to wait that long, but fall is peak Jimmy season.
I hope we don't have to wait this long, but I'm just gonna go ahead and pencil in Oct 18th for release date after that tweet they sent a couple months ago.
My 7 year old daughter was singing Sweetness in the bathtub over and over last night, specifically the “whoa-oh-oh’s.” These truly are the brightest days.
Good news: After 4 years and probably 15 listens, this morning I threw on Surviving & I'm stoked to say it finally grabbed me & feels like a JEW album I knew this day would come eventually. I'm halfway through my 2nd consecutive listen & I think I'm gonna go for a 3rd Bad news: That means I must be way sadder than I thought, fuck haha
Title track has some of my favorite Jim lyrics. I’ve thought about getting a tattoo of “never alone in pain” but that seems a little too dramatic for me haha.
After 3 times through Surviving I just decided to run through the discography again, & I love them more than I ever have. I love getting this feeling with this band, fuck. When I was listening to 12.23.95 I was thinking about how experimental that was 25 years ago & did some digging, & found this track by track breakdown for Clarity if anyone is interested! Kinda cool to find out Final Fantasy was an influence for 12.23.95, & that they almost lost this song
Drove 10 hours to Chicago for the closest Clarity 10-year show to me, stood outside the Metro in 9 degree weather for over an hour before doors to get a good spot, and it will always stand as one of the best shows I've ever seen. I'll probably never do something like that for a show again, and I'm glad I did.
In case you still need Clarity on vinyl at a great price: https://thesoundofvinyl.us/products/jimmy-eat-world-clarity
To add, you can also get Bleed American and Static Prevails too for the same price or close to it here (it will show the discount in your cart)
of course they're still killing it musically, but man these dudes have barely aged in a quarter of a century
Great long form interview with Jim from the past year. He picks his top 5 JEW songs ~44 minutes in and he picks some awesome ones.