Jimmy Eat World - "Chase This Light"

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The title of their upcoming album as stated on their blog.

Not much other news at this point.

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Jimmy Eat World Sees The 'Light' This Fall

August 15, 2007, 12:40 PM ET
Katie Hasty, N.Y.

Jimmy Eat World has set an Oct. 16 release date for its new Interscope album, "Chase This Light." As previously reported, the rock foursome tapped Butch Vig to produce the set, its first album in three years.

"The record is quite eclectic," Vig told Billboard.com. "There are three or four songs that sound like classic Jimmy Eat World, with angular, razor-sharp guitars. There are a couple that are a lot more dreamy, and some that are very groove-acious. Anybody who is fan will like this record."

The album's first single, "Big Casino," will be released to radio at the end of this month. The set also features backing vocals from Amy Ross of Nowhere Man And A Whiskey Girl and "some whip-cracks, explosions, bells, glocks and the occasional reverse cymbal," says vocalist/guitarist Jim Adkins on the band's Web site. "I can't wait to show you guys what we have been doing for the last year."

"Chase This Light" is the follow-up to the 2004's "Futures," which has sold 615,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Capitol/EMI recently released expanded editions of two of Jimmy Eat World's earliest albums: 1999's "Clarity," which gained bonus tracks "77 Satellites" and "What Would I Say to You Now," and 1996's "Static Prevails," which now has a demo version of "Sweetness" and "Christmas Card."

Jimmy Eat World is currently touring in Europe and is scheduled to perform at the Leeds and Reading festivals in the U.K. at the end of the month.

Here is the track list for "Chase This Light":

"Big Casino"
"Let It Happen"
"Like She'll Always Be"
"Carry You"
"Electable (Give It Up)"
"Gotta Be Somebody's Blues"
"Feeling Lucky"
"Here It Goes"
"Chase This Light"
"Firefight"

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Jimmy Eat World announces US tour

Jimmy Eat World have announced a US tour to support the release of 'Chase This Light', set to be released on October 16.

Having previewed many of the album tracks at the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds at the weekend, where they played two sets in one day on the Reading leg.

'Chase This Light' is the follow-up to 2004's 'Futures' and was produced by Butch Vig who describes the album as "Quite eclectic. There are three or four songs that sound like classic Jimmy Eat World, with angular, razor-sharp guitars. There are a couple that are a lot more dreamy, and some that are very groove-acious."

The dates are:

Queen Creek AZ Schnepf Farms (KEDJ Edgefest) (September 29)
Redlands CA Greek Amphitheatre (30)
Santa Cruz CA The Catalyst (October 2)
San Francisco CA The Fillmore (3)
Reno NV Grand Sierra (4)
Salt Lake City UT Utah State Fair Park (X96 show) (6)
Missoula MT Wilma Theatre (7)
Calgary AB MacEwen Hall (8)
Vancouver BC Commodore Ballroom (10)
Seattle WA Showbox Showroom (11)
Bellingham WA Performing Arts Center Main (12)
Davis CA Freeborn Hall (14)
Los Angeles CA The Wiltern (16)
Anaheim CA House Of Blues (18)
San Diego CA House Of Blues (19)
Las Vegas NV The Joint (20)

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Billboard:

ARTIST: JIMMY EAT WORLD

ALBUM: CHASE THIS LIGHT

Having first blazed down the teary-eyed emo trail in 1999, Jimmy Eat World keeps successfully tapping into the teenage angst-ridden pop/punk market five albums in. "Chase This Light" finds the band returning to the more accelerated power pop of 2001's "Bleed American" rather than the darker tone heard throughout 2004's "Futures." With Butch Vig behind the boards, there is an extra coat of studio sheen on anthemic rockers ("Big Casino"), finger-snapping dance-y numbers ("Always Be") and such borderline Fall Out Boy-sounding political shout-outs as "Electable (Give It Up)."

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Out today in the USA!!

Target: $9.98
Best Buy: $9.99
Circuit City: $9.99

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Reviewed by Brian Mansfield
USA Today

Jimmy Eat World, Chase This Light: * * * (out of four) Punk-pop, post-puberty

Three years is a lifetime in the youthful punk-pop scene, especially since Fall Out Boy and the Fueled by Ramen bands have redefined the music since Jimmy Eat World released its last album. So singer Jim Adkins probably isn¡¯t the aging rocker of Big Casino, but kids who hit puberty after 2004¡¯s Futures could be forgiven for thinking he is. Carry On and Feeling Lucky pack plenty of punch and polish, and no song has less than the sharp-edged melodies the band¡¯s fans have come to expect from them (particularly memorable is the eerie string arrangement on Gotta Be Somebody¡¯s Blues). But some songs have little more than those melodies to recommend them, leaving this album long on light, but short on heat.

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Billboard.com for the 11/3 charts:

Selling 62,000, rock troupe Jimmy Eat World's "Chase This Light" debuts at No. 6, tying the group's previous best debut with 2004's "Futures." But the Interscope album moved 62,000, far short of the 99,000-copy entry of "Futures."

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11/17 chart

66 JIMMY EAT WORLD CHASE THIS LIGHT 12,086 19,690 -39% 94,269

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12/15 chart

191 JIMMY EAT WORLD - CHASE THIS LIGHT 5,218 7,091 -26% 123,260

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1/12/07 chart

--- 167 JIMMY EAT WORLD CHASE THIS LIGHT 8,258 -24% 10,835 155,075

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01/19: 167 161 JIMMY EAT WORLD CHASE THIS LIGHT 5,124 8,258 -38 160,199

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01/26: 161 184 JIMMY EAT WORLD CHASE THIS LIGHT 3,408 5,124 -33 163,607