★★★★★
Out in the real world, the common theme that exists with Jimmy Eat World is that most people have only heard their hit songs such as "The Middle" and "Pain." Let's face it: anyone who doesn't live under a rock has heard Jim Adkins belt out that chorus about everything turning out just fine. However, despite achieving universal acclaim from critics it exists as one of their most overlooked records...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-05-15
★★★★★
A lot of things contribute to how you feel at a live show. Whether you dig the band's latest album, what the size of the venue is, the spirit of the crowd, the setlist. In my case, at some shows I feel tremendously young and full of energy. At other shows I feel terribly old. For Jimmy Eat World at one San Francisco's premiere large theater venues on September 22, 2013,, it was definitely the latter...
- www.punknews.org
2014-02-22
★★★★★
It's been 12 whole years since Jimmy Eat World broke into the mainstream with Bleed American (i.e. the album formally known as Bleed American), and much in the music world has changed. Where there was once room for a certain brand of Pop-emo-core in the culture, popular music has taken a sharp left turn into derpy roots-rock and an amorphous sludge of other new sub-genres. Jimmy Eat World don't want to hear that--because why change what still basically works...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-07-26
★★★★★
It had been since Chase This Light when Jimmy Eat World came to Utah. Back then, opener Paramore was beginning their ascent to pop stardom while Jimmy Eat World was supporting an album with no hit resembling the success of "The Middle" off of their breakthrough Bleed American. Regardless of hits, Jimmy Eat World is still a bulldozer of a live act which undoubtedly has carried them through the years of ever-changing fads and new Pitchfork flavor bands of the month...
- www.punknews.org
2014-01-08
★★★★★
Release Date: June 11 2013 If you listen to a lot of music, chances are you've listened to bands that you liked, but never really could get into. By that, I mean, you never really loved them. You like their records, or some songs, but you can't get into them, no matter what you do. For me, that band is Jimmy Eat World. I love pop-punk, and I love the bands who mix pop-punk and indie-rock together, JEW being one of them. For whatever reason, however, I could never get into them...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-07-15
★★★★★
The members of Jimmy Eat World must be really great at maintaining friendships - unnaturally great, even. The band has consisted of the same four members since their first major label release, 1996's Static Prevails, and as far as the public knows, there hasn't been a fraction of strain or ill will amongst the band in the past seventeen years (except that little disagreement with longtime producer Mark Trombino, but seeing as he produced their previous album, Invented, it looks like even that...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-06-26
★★★★★
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Critical Mass
Release Date: June 18, 2013Label: RCA
Jim Adkins (foreground), World (background, partial view) / Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty What you used Jimmy Eat World for around their peak (Bleed American, 2001) was to psych yourself up, if you were the kind of person who got psyched up with words...
- www.spin.com
2013-06-22
★★★★★
No matter your age, angst remains a powerful muse. Jimmy Eat World have been channelling theirs into catchy emotive rock - don't call them emo! - since their 1994 debut, coming to prominence with the catchy, poppy hooks of 2001's 'Bleed American'. There are plenty of those on these 10 songs, notably the infectious title track, lead single 'I Will Steal You Back' and the scornful spite of 'How'd You Have Me'...
- www.nme.com
2013-06-17
★★★★★
As 2013 has seen excellent releases from the likes of emo acts such as Senses Fail, it's perhaps time to dust off the best album of another 2000s emo mainstay, Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American. Or, it would be if the Mesa, Arizona foursome hadn't released their best album since the one that produced alt rock radio classics like The Middle...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-06-12
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