It's just four dudes, each of them playing their own role, with the exception of maybe backup vocals. If you listen to a Van Halen album, there's not a lot of overdubs-if any. “One thing that we were thinking about for that-and for everything, really-the album should have less things doing more. How little do you need to really fully communicate what you want to do, what you want to say?” It's more of a crescendo, and it's more or less one riff the whole song. 'Surviving' steps a little bit out-it has the arc that I think is interesting to write, but it doesn't have any of the interior or outline parts, like a normal pop song would. And then we like to see how much we can get away with while it still resembles that. The lines that we color within are something that feels like a traditional pop song, where sections of the tune are recognizable and it has an arc to it. There's usually a basic template or a basic parameter we give ourselves. It's a good example of us being us, but also trying to push ourselves in a way, but also trying to work within some framework of restraint. “It's this tune that doesn't have a real discernible chorus to it. “It's like the time capsule of everything I've been thinking about for the last couple of years,” he says, “which is basically the blocks that we put in our own way that keep us from really experiencing life in as meaningful a way as it can be.” Here he talks through a handful of key tracks that best show how Jimmy Eat World have managed to challenge themselves while still feeling true to everything they've done and meant for over 25 years. Otherwise, why are we doing it?” The simple answer, as evidenced by their 10th album, Surviving, is that they are extremely good at it-guitar-driven anthems that feel keenly suited to this moment in Adkins' life. So anything we do has to be as good as the best thing we've done so far. “You're not only making an album, you're basically adding to your catalog. “The standard that we've set for ourselves now gets higher and higher every album we do,” frontman Jim Adkins tells Apple Music. Never let it be said that successful bands have less at stake once they get two decades deep into their career-or at least never say it to Arizona emo pioneers Jimmy Eat World.

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