Jimmy Eat World: Integrity Blues (gatefold) [RCA]

Why you'll love it

Integrity Blues reached No. 17 on the Billboard 200 and drew some of the best reviews of Jimmy Eat World's later career. Justin Meldal-Johnsen co-produced it, and "Sure And Certain" and "Get Right" carried it on alternative radio.

This edition

• Gatefold jacket
• Lyric sheet included

About the album

Jimmy Eat World had nothing left to prove by 2016, and Integrity Blues sounds like a band using that freedom. They recorded it in Los Angeles with Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and the songs have a spacious, polished sheen, built around Jim Adkins' patient melodies and a new fondness for atmosphere.

"Sure And Certain" is the anthem, a big, warm chorus in the tradition of "The Middle"; the title track and "Pol Roger" drift into slower, stranger territory and close the album in a long exhale. RCA put it out on October 21, 2016.

Their best album in over a decade.
Aidan Reynolds, Drowned in Sound

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Tracklist

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On RCA (cat# 88985324031), first out October 21, 2016.