Jimmy Eat World DAMAGE

Jimmy Eat World's eighth studio album, 2013's Damage, is a mature breakup album that still retains all of the band's youthful, sock-to-the-gut pop energy. Produced in Los Angeles by Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys), the album is a straightforward collection of immediately infectious rock that balances Jimmy Eat World's vital electric guitar sound with a deft use of acoustic guitars and keyboards. The album also builds nicely upon the power pop/dance-rock vibe of their 2010 release, Invented, with an even more focused, lyrical approach that helps make this one of the band's most cathartic and moving albums of its career. Despite their status as aging leaders of the emo-pop revolution of the 2000s, Jimmy Eat World have nonetheless charted their own path through genres, one that has less to do with flavor-of-the-moment trends and everything to do with writing incisive, poignant, endlessly melodic and ultimately transcendent rock tunes. Frontman Jim Adkins has a kna