For my 652nd review, I reluctantly dig into Jimmy Eat World’s ninth studio album… and find a more mature, well-produced release, their best in around a decade.
Best Songs: ‘You Are Free’, ‘The End Is Beautiful’, ‘Pol Roger’, ‘Integrity Blues’, ‘It Matters’
Worst Songs: ‘Pass The Baby’
7/10
To skip my preamble, go to 1:59
Text review of ‘Integrity Blues’: http://www.spectrum-pulse.ca/2016/10/album-review-integrity-blues-by-jimmy.html
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Integrity Blues
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Integrity Blues Acoustic
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Tove Lo – lady wood pz
Please cover the new Avenged Sevenfold record “The Stage” It’s much more technical and progressive than their previous work. Very Dream Theater-esque
Tove Lo- Lady Wood!!!!
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I want to let you know that Icon For Hire is coming out with a new album. It’s being released on November 25, but pre-orders are available. I saw that you liked their self-titled album, so I thought I would give you the head’s up
Honestly, I was surprised you enjoyed this as much as you did, Mark, given that I read your Damage review. That said, I’m so happy you do like it, as I love this album a lot. Truly great work fro the band.
I remembered you not being a big fan of Jimmy Eat World – glad to see they’ve won you over a bit.
By the way, Kate Voegele’s album dropped today and upon preliminary listening it’s pretty good. She’s basically gone full folk/alt-country by now, as further enticement for you. I’m pretty sure you’d find something to like, especially since she’s very similar to Karen Jonas vocally on top of everything else.
You should try out Deadeye by The Ballroom Thieves!! Some great country-folk-rock music, and generally, I cannot stand modern country music.
You should review Tove Lo’s new album, Lady Wood
Like everyone else, The Middle was my introduction to this band. Next came Pain through Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (fun game) and my first JEW record was Chase This Light and I really listened to it a lot back then. Futures came afterwards and maybe I should listen to it again. I’m interested on your take on Robbie Williams’ new album The Heavy Entertainment Show.
Are you going to review the new CRX album? (The new band of Nick Valensi from The Strokes)
can you review the new Norah Jones album
Shit third
lady wood please
Saor just put their new album up for early streaming, and I bet you’d like it. It’s atmospheric black metal with Celtic folk touches. I feel like there’s some influence of Panopticon’s Autumn Eternal on the album, so I bet you’d enjoy it.
Haha the fact that you’re “Not sure” about Jimmy Eat World but are perfectly sure about some of the shit music you talk about is disturbing.
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PLEASE!!!
Such a pleasant surprise. I love the crap out of this album
Can you review Avenged Sevenfold’s new album, The Stage?
Catch JEW live, dude. They’ll blow you away
Please , Can you do an album review from the catalan band, Obeses- Monstres i Princeses
After being massively disappointed with Damaged, I was interested but not necessarily excited about this album (and I was a big JEW fan through high school and college). Sure and Certain as the lead single caught my interest and I stopped off to buy a copy when it was released. It definitely reminded me of Futures more than any other album of theirs, which was a good thing – probably my second favorite after Clarity. Also I loved that they ended with the long, massive track like they did on albums 2-5 (Invented did this too, but I had the deluxe edition, so it didn’t feel like the end). Overall, as a fan of Jimmy Eat World, I would give it an 8 and I loved the review, always enjoy watching. Thanks.
So I guess Sabrina Carpenter got skipped… sad. How about Tove Lo?
I’m really glad everyone seems to be loving this album! Maybe you’re a bit more objective than me as I’ve been a huge fan of Jimmy Eat World for about the past 12 years or so but I would disagree with you about Jim Adkins voice, maybe not the strongest but it’s really emotive and amazing live! While Bleed American and Chase This Light may have had some songs with ‘immature’ writing, they weren’t trying for anything other than that (The Middle being the obvious example) but a lot of their writing, especially on Clarity and Futures are incredibly mature – again with Clarity and 23 being great examples of those albums. Also, maybe because the themes of the albums were kind of relevant to the point in my life when they came out but I’m one of the few who likes Invented and Damage!
Glad you liked it over all and if you get a chance check them out live!
Gross dude…enjoy your herpes. if anything is gross, it’s your fucking mouth.
Could you please review American Football’s new album?
hey can u review lady wood by tove lo
Can you review Cosmic Hallelujah by Kenny Chesney?
I like it. Emo are you retarded? Great song writers? Their good writers music emo cause U feel it dumbass
i’m a long time jimmy eat world fan, and this is better than i was expecting
Maybe it’s because I never followed this band too far outside of Bleed American, but I am not too big of a fan of this album, even though it did grow on me a little. I’d give it a strong 6/10.
Favorites: “It Matters”, “Sure and Certain” “Pass the Baby”
Worst: “Through”