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JIMMY EAT WORLD<\/h1>\nJIMMY EAT WORLD<\/h1>\nLooking at love and life with a new perspective\u2014and a new producer<\/b><\/p>\n
Though best known for their optimistic 2002 hit \u201cThe Middle,\u201d Jimmy Eat World\u2019s lyrics have always leaned more toward heartache and internal struggle. With the polished rock of their eighth album, Damage<\/i>, frontman Jim Adkins decided to write an album that reflected the world-weary attitudes of someone who has grown up writing love songs. \u201cThe kinds of love songs that interest me are the ones that deal with heartache and emotional injury,\u201d says Adkins. \u201cNothing annoys me more than if you stack happy on top of happy. I had to approach it from an honest perspective of the world around me now. I\u2019m a little older, and the idea of love songs now is not the same as when you approach it from the perspective of discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Damage <\/i>was recorded in producer Alain Johannes\u2019 studio to analog tape as well as digitally. The decision was made in part because Johannes had the tape machine, but also because it fit the band\u2019s recording strategy. \u201cIt was the way we wanted to approach the record: Don\u2019t overthink things. Let it go, move on, do the next thing,\u201d says Adkins. \u201cI think inherently, when you work with tape, that all comes out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The choice of producer was itself a shift. Mark Trombino had produced five out of Jimmy Eat World\u2019s previous seven records, including 2010\u2019s Invented<\/i>. Meanwhile the band\u2014which formed in 1993\u2014had taken on larger roles as co-producers over the years. \u201cWe wanted to have a fresh pair of ears around all the time. We haven\u2019t worked like that in a while,\u201d Adkins says. \u201cWe\u2019ve been pretty heavy-handed in the engineering and production of our last couple of albums.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adkins also says that bringing in Johannes \u201caccomplishes a really important role of a producer in keeping things fun, exciting and rewarding. When you\u2019re really struggling with something, trying to get a take and not hearing what you want to hear, it\u2019s important to have somebody around to get you out of your own head and\u00a0jog your perspective a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The band\u2019s perspective has gradually shifted away from the scrappy punk of their early days to their current, more mature song structure. \u201cIf you\u2019re writing something, and you go back and say, \u2018Man, that sounds exactly like me,\u2019 then I think you\u2019re not on the right track at all,\u201d says Adkins. \u201cIf you listen to something and say, \u2018Man, I don\u2019t know, does this sound like me?\u2019 Then I think you\u2019re on the right track. Then I think you\u2019re moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n
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