Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues (Download Insert)

Like a city skyline shimmering under a night sky, Jimmy Eat World's ninth LP, Integrity Blues, shines in the dark with glimmering production, a refreshed sense for hooks, and some new tricks to add to their catalog. After the less exciting Chase This Light and Invented, the quartet -- Jim Adkins, Rick Burch, Zach Lind, and Tom Linton -- resurrected some of their pop sense on 2013's Damage, but a piece of the puzzle was still missing. On Integrity Blues, they strike a clean balance between past and present, almost as if they aimed to modernize Bleed American and Futures. Recorded in Los Angeles, it's easy to see how the city's nocturnal coolness could influence the Arizona band. Here, they sound more like Silversun Pickups and late-era Death Cab for Cutie than their fellow emo-rock survivors on the Warped circuit. It's a welcome update to their decades-old style. "Sure and Certain" and "Pretty Grids" sound plucked straight from Better Nature, while "Through" and "You with Me" are as eff