Jimmy Eat World’s last record, 2016’s Integrity Blues, felt like a big moment for the Arizona emo heroes. Despite a title that conjured up images of frontman Jim Adkins strumming his way down the Mississippi River, it actually found the quartet turning down their full-hearted guitars in favour of a moodier digital sheen – a consequence of working with M83 producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen. What followed was arguably the band’s best music in a decade, the work in foreign territory clearly rekindling something within its creators. Curiously, Surviving, Jimmy Eat World’s 10th album, does not follow the same path that Integrity Blues seemed to be treading, instead returning to something closer to the band’s rockier roots. But this record does owe its predecessor a debt for the adventurous sp...
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