For alternative rock band, Jimmy Eat World, 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of their fifth studio album, Futures (Interscope Records), and the 5th anniversary of their 10th studio album, Surviving (RCA Records). To commemorate, and to close out their three-chapter series, the Arizona quartet has made Futures: Phoenix Sessions (Chapter V) and Surviving: Phoenix Sessions (Chapter X) available on vinyl for the first time, via Exotic Location Recordings. Both are due out Fall 2024. Find more details below.
Pre-order Futures: Phoenix Sessions (Chapter V) here: https://jimmyeatworld.store/products/futures-phoenix-sessions-2xlp-blizzard
Pre-order Surviving: Phoenix Sessions (Chapter X) here: https://jimmyeatworld.store/products/surviving-phoenix-sessions-lp-fade-to-black
The albums were self-produced by Jimmy Eat World and impeccably mixed by Jim Adkins with both being made available this fall via the band’s Exotic Location Recordings imprint and can be pre-ordered through the band’s webstore. Both limited-edition releases were recorded live as part of their 2021 Phoenix Sessions, a partnership with Danny Wimmer Presents on a unique global streaming performance series filmed at the Icehouse in Phoenix, AZ.
When discussing the recording process for Futures, the band explains it was “our darkest album and was the hardest for us to make. Futures was the first record we made where we didn’t feel like we were making it anonymously.” (Futures arrived three years after their breakthrough, the platinum-certified Bleed American, which contained the enduring hit “The Middle.”) Despite Futures “being a super challenging record to make,” they add, “we pushed through and ended up with an album we are super proud of to this day. Being able to reimagine it as a live recording so many years later for the Phoenix Sessions was an amazing experience, and we hope you enjoy reliving it again as much as we did.”
The Futures: Phoenix Sessions 2-LP set will be on hand-poured blizzard colored vinyl, and its gatefold package comes with exclusive photos by Steve Thrasher, notes from the band, and an exclusive 20th anniversary etching on side D. The Surviving: Phoenix Sessions LP will be pressed on fade to black colored vinyl, and it includes an insert with behind-the-scenes photos by Steve Thrasher. To mark the 25th anniversary of Clarity (1999 / Capitol), in February 2024 the band released Clarity: Phoenix Sessions (Chapter III), a limited-edition two-LP pressed on sun-kissed colored vinyl. For those looking to order all three chapters, you can now do so here: https://jimmyeatworld.store/
Jimmy Eat World’s only hometown show of 2024 sees the band performing Futures in its entirety on October 17 at The Van Buren in Phoenix, AZ. Tickets to this one-night-only event will be available beginning Friday, August 16, at 10 a.m. local time at https://www.livenation.com. Tickets to all tour dates can be found on the band’s website.
Futures: Phoenix Sessions
2-LP limited-edition, hand poured blizzard color effect vinyl
01 Futures
02 Just Tonight
03 Work
04 Kill
05 The World You Love
06 Pain
07 Drugs or Me
08 Polaris
09 Nothing Wrong
10 Night Drive
11 23
Surviving: Phoenix Sessions
Single LP limited-edition on fade to black colored vinyl
01 Surviving
02 Criminal Energy
03 Delivery
04 555
05 One Mil
06 All the Way (Stay)
07 Diamond
08 Love Never
09 Recommit
10 Congratulations
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Jimmy Eat World are celebrating three decades and 10 albums of existence in 2024. All but one with the current lineup of lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch and drummer Zach Lind. The Mesa, AZ, quartet’s commercial breakthrough came with the release of several singles from their album Bleed American, with “The Middle” hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and peaking at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 33 weeks total and became RIAA-certified platinum. Futures, their follow-up to BA, featured “Pain,” which also hit No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart. In October 2019, the band released their tenth album, the critically acclaimed Surviving, which became one of three “chapters” of their 2021 globally streamed series Phoenix Sessions along with Futures (Chapter V) and Clarity (Chapter III), performed in their entirety (available on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBEA9EQTvrQyZBQXh0LORSWaheczz79UB&si=oXsJz9Qve3KHds3Q). Recently, they’ve released two independent singles, “Something Loud” and “Place Your Debts.” with the former charting 21 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay. Jimmy Eat World have played numerous late-night shows throughout their storied career, including The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Saturday Night Live, and have joined epic festival lineups, from Lollapalooza and BottleRock to Summerfest and When We Were Young.
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