Track Listing

1. Big Casino
2. Let It Happen
3. Always Be
4. Carry You
5. Electable (Give It Up)
6. Gotta Be Somebody's Blues
7. Feeling Lucky
8. Here It Goes
9. Chase This Light
10. Firefight
11. Dizzy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5054 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-16
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Jimmy Eat World, one of rock's most lasting and loved icons, return with Chase This Light. The first album since 2004's Futures finds the band partnered with legendary producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins) overseeing as executive producer. Largely recorded in the band's own studio in Arizona, Chase This Light has a powerful optimism and, like 2001's beloved platinum break-through Jimmy Eat World (aka Bleed American), each song finds a way to compel the listener to keep coming back again and again to discover a new favorite.

Jimmy Eat World have the unique ability to be a bands-band as well as fans-band, marrying credibility with a tuneful accessibly that makes them a permanent fixture of the modern music scene. Jimmy Eat World never stop striving to make the best music of their career, Chase This Light proves this.

Amazon.com
The rough edges have been shaved away, but there is something admirable about the way Jimmy Eat World recovers from 2004's dreary Futures album with a follow-up that displays all the confidence and vitality of its seminal early work. Executive-produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins), Chase This Light is packed with huge pop moments, galloping off with the exhilarating "Big Casino" and swiftly following it with the towering "Carry You," songs seemingly custom made for action-packed pick-up truck commercials. Clarity, the Arizona band's 1999 breakthrough, remains in a completely different class, but at least you get the sense that it's making the effort this time around, despite following what is clearly a more mainstream glow. --Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews

JEW just keeps getting better
I cannot bring myself to remove this from the player. Dizzy is simply one great track! This album has almost everything i like about Jimmy Eat World and almost nothing that I don't. 5 stars from me.

"I have a ringing in my head..." This sticks to you.
This is my first review so bear some patience. My favourite albums of JEW are Clarity and Bleed American. Futures is good too, but all of those albums are albums that I pick songs out of - I don't listen to it straight through. With Chase This Light I do.
I'm not the kind of person to get stuck to just one album of two, as I'm sure some other fans do - you like either the previous or the latter work of theirs. Bummer, because Chase This Light is very good. Which is not what I thought at first.

I'm hard to please at the beginning. If I don't hear something that'll immediately catch me then I lose interest straight away and don't care to find out more. But I did stick the album onto my iPod, and I'm sure somewhere along the way the songs came up on shuffle because I heard them and thought "Hey this is good stuff".
So give this another try or three. It'll be totally worth it.

I'd say this is a more refined sound, perhaps a bit too poprock and upbeat for some, very different from Futures which I think has a slightly more dark, emotional touch to it.
There's alot going on in the songs, but in a pleasing/interesting manner that makes you really want to pay attention to it all. All in all, I don't there is a track on this album that doesn't belong although some are better than others. There's alot of variety to the songs so even if you don't like some I'll guarantee you like others. Give it a shot, and then another if it doesn't catch you the first time - in the end you'll have it ringing in your head, and no-one to help you get it out.

Clear favourites for me are: Big Casino, Let It Happen, Electable (Give It Up), Gotta Be Somebody's Blues, Feeling Lucky, Here It Goes, Chase This Light and Firefight.

Top quality songs, albiet a bit less diverse
Jimmy Eat World is by far my favorite band. I liked them after "Bleed American" and enjoyed "Clarity" too, but when "Futures" came out I never looked back. It was absolutely brilliant. After listening through "Chase This Light" about twice, my first reaction was that, overall, it just sounded "smoother" than "Futures." All the songs are well-crafted and very pleasing to the ear, but overall, it does not cover the huge spectrum of sounds that "Futures" did. "Chase This Light" does not bring back the super-energized sound of "Pain" nor the mystical feel of songs like "Drugs Or Me" or "Polaris." I was a tiny bit disappointed by this, but even if the music was less diverse, that didn't make it worse. As some of the other reviews stated, "Chase This Light" seems a bit safer, sticking to medium-paced beats and not-so-controversial content.

Of course, if it's any amount of a reconciliation, if one takes the band's recent EP "Stay on my side Tonight" and puts it next to "Chase This Light," you get a fairly well-balanced sound. It almost as if the band had additional darker pieces from the fall-out of Futures, and rubber-banded a bit back to the soft side for "Chase This Light."

I still give it a five, because compared to the rest of the music world, "Chase This Light" is excellent.