Jimmy Eat World

Editor's Review:

For the entirety of their career, from Clarity - their criminally overlooked 1999 sophomore record for Capitol - to Bleed American - the album that broke them into the collective mainstream - Jimmy Eat World had at their disposal the proverbial fifth member: producer and programmer Mark Trombino. On Futures, the band eschews Trombino in favor of alt rock knob-turner Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters), whose more straightforward FM production suits JEW’s newfound penchant for mid-tempo radio rock. Not that this is entirely a bad thing: the album’s title track in particular is as compelling a melodic rock song as anything U2 ever wrote. But for those who were looking for a return to the Clarity-era ambience, Futures is definitely a step in the opposite direction. More subdued, yet more direct than Bleed American, Futures is nothing if not the model for radio rock in the post-emo mainstream world.
- Daniel Taylor

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Record Label Interscope Released October 2004

Tracks Futures Just Tonight . . . Work Kill The World You Love Pain Drugs or Me Polaris Nothingwrong Night Drive 23

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