2004-11

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There are basically two ways to handle sudden success: Take it as a mandate to chase your muse, doin' it for art and adventure, or spend the rest of your days obliging folks who want to hear you play your first hit single all night long. Two years after the massive pop hit "The Middle" and its young-people-in-their-BVDs video catapulted them from best-kept-secrecy to MTV ubiquity, Jimmy Eat World are at that crossroads. Rumor had it they were working on a less accessible album, one that would separate the true believers from the kids who just came for the underwear party. Instead, they've given those true believers what they probably wanted all along: an album roughly divided into songs that have their cake (like 2001's breakthrough Bleed American) and eat it too (like 1999's more staunchly emo Clarity).Read More

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