“Damage” Review by Alternative Press

After one listen of Damage, Jimmy Eat World’s eighth full-length (and first for RCA Records), one thing will be abundantly clear: Either frontman Jim Adkins had his heart broken pretty goddamn badly at some point during the past few years, or he is remarkably good at faking it.

Instead of continuing down the odd lyrical path he explored on 2010’s uneven Invented, where he publically stated he was drawing inspiration from random photographs and inventing stories for each, Damage feels extremely personal. There’s the yearning for reconciliation (the title track), the admission of weakness (“Lean”), the realization of romantic failure (“Book of Love”), the petty jealousy (“I Will Steal You Back”) and the wistful reminiscing (“You Were Good”). Damage might as well be the 10 stages of grief when it comes to heartbreak.

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Stream KROQ Weenie Roast

Jimmy Eat World will be playing the main stage today at the 21st Annual KROQ Weenie Roast. You may stream the event live here. Jimmy Eat World will be playing at approximately 6:35 p.m PDT.

Jimmy Eat World Talk Getting Back to Basics with ‘Damage’

It’s a return to the simpler days for alt-rock mainstays Jimmy Eat World on their upcoming seventh album, partially inspired by recording at the home studio of producer/musician Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Mark Lanegan Band), as well as looking back at their classic 1999 album, Clarity.

As we recently reported, Damage is out June 11 on Dine Alone Records/RCA and features 10 new songs of the Phoenix band’s trademark emotional rock. The group recorded the upcoming album with Johannes in L.A. in the fall of 2012 — a welcome change of pace from their previous three albums, which were all recorded at home.

 

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Casa Grande,AZ @ Paramount Theatre 5/9/2013

Credit: Melissa Fossum
Credit: Melissa Fossum

Jimmy Eat World
Paramount Theatre, Casa Grande, Arizona
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Jimmy Eat World’s Arizona tour turned out to be excellent news for local fans of the band, who get a belated chance to see them in the kind of venues they played before their national breakout more than a decade ago. The group is now more than halfway through its tour, which stops in venues in smaller towns such Yuma, Flagstaff, and Sierra Vista. The remaining tour dates are sold out, but given the intimacy of Thursday night’s show, buying a ticket from a reseller would absolutely be worth it.

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