CHASE THIS LIGHT - JIMMY EAT WORLD
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).”
