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Static Prevails is the second studio album by American rock band Jimmy Eat World, released on July 23, 1996, through Capitol Records. Following the release of the band's self titled debut album (1994), they signed to Capitol in mid 1995 for further releases. Carrier member Rick Burch replaced bassist Mitch Porter, who left to become a Mormon missionary. Recorded at Sound City in Los Angeles, California, and at Big Fish, in Encinitas, California, Wes Kidd, Mark Trombino, and Jimmy Eat World acted as producers for the album. Static Prevails saw the band move away from skate punk and pop punk, and into a more aggressive sound consisting of post hardcore, emo and punk rock. Preceded by a three month United States tour, it was promoted with a mini tour of the country, a stint with the Smoking Popes and the Figgs, and a US tour with Sense Field in early 1997. A music video was filmed for "Rockstar", and "Call It in the Air" was released as the lead single in August 1996. The album received mixed reviews from music critics, who mostly commented on the vocals and guitarwork. It has since been viewed as a benchmark for the second wave of emo.

Jimmy Eat World released their self titled debut studio album in 1994, through local label Wooden Blue records. As the members left high school, frontman Jim Adkins was part of a production company with Joel Leibow, co founder of Wooden Blue. The production company listed itself in Maximumrocknroll guide Book Your Own Fuckin' Life, which assisted bands, promoters, and venues to book shows across the United States. After being contacted by Christie Front Drive for a show, Leibow asked the band to do a split single with Jimmy Eat World. As the band did not know any entertainment lawyers, they hired Lind's family attorney to gloss over the contract. Around this time, bassist Mitch Porter became a Mormon missionary at the insistence of his family, and left the band. At Capitol's insistence, Jimmy Eat World went to a rehearsal room in Los Angeles, having been told to write some new songs and rewrite others, being guided by a producer they had hired. The band did pre production at Mind's Eye Digital in Mesa, Arizona, with engineer Larry Elyea. Static Prevails was recorded in 1995 at Sound City in Los Angeles, and at Big Fish in Encinitas, California. Trombino, who also acted as engineer, mixed all of the tracks, apart from "Rockstar" and "Seventeen", in Studio C at Capitol Studios. Peter Doell, Billy Smith, and Steve Genewick worked as assistant engineers at Capitol. Rothrock and Schnapf mixed "Rockstar" and "Seventeen" at Sunset Sound, with Cappy Japngie serving as an assistant engineer. Static Prevails splits lead vocals almost evenly between Linton and Adkins, which contrasted from the Linton dominated Jimmy Eat World, where Adkins only sung lead on one track. Linton said Adkins came up with the basic form of "Thinking, That's All", which the other members added to. The band had been playing "Rockstar" live for sometime, prior to signing with Capitol, with Linton often mumbling his speech as he had no lyrics for it. It was only during the demo session with Auer that he wrote the words, as the label thought it was a hit sounding song. Linton said they took influence for it from Sunny Day Real Estate, particularly their song "In Circles" (1994), while Adkins the lyrics were "very journal entry ish". Lind said the opening drum part to "Seventeen" intentionally ripped off Drove Like Jehu, to the annoyance of Trombino. "Episode IV" is the first track the band wrote without any "loud, saturated guitar sounds", according to Adkins. He came up with the basic structure, which he showed to Linton, who thought it had a sound akin to "Hurt" (1994) by Nine Inch Nails. Linton opted to whisper his vocals instead of singing to "keep it a really delicate song". For sometime, Linton struggled with the song's lyrics; he only came up with them while in the bathroom at the studio "looking at aerosol cans and trying to find some rhythming words to match the verse". The band used to open their shows with "World Is Static" as it would shift direction partway through. Alongside this, Adkins said they were employing choruses more often as they found enjoyment in repetition. Staff members at Capitol asked Linton to tell Adkins to stop screaming as he was doing it for the majority of "World Is Static": "I was like, 'Yeah, I can't tell him that, because he'll just scream louder. Burch compared the hushed atmosphere of "In the Same Room" to falling snow. When mixing the song, Adkins said him and Trombino recorded radio static for its beginning, which Trombino compressed to make it sit around the vocals. The title of "Robot Factory" comes from a power plant in the McClintock area of Tempe, Arizona. Adkins said it was about him living in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he previously attended college prior to dropping out. Capitol released Static Prevails on July 23, 1996. The cover artwork features a sideways photo of chimneys, taken on a rooftop in Denver, Colorado, by Paul Drake. The original vinyl version featured different artwork, and included the bonus 7 inch vinyl of "In the Same Room" and "77 Satellites". The band made a music video for "Rockstar", which was included on some copies of the CD version of the album as enhanced content. Jimmy Eat World promoted Static Prevails with a mini US tour along the West; later, the band embarked on the God Bless America tour with the Smoking Popes and the Figgs. Capitol felt the original version of "Seventeen" would work in the film Never Been Kissed (1999), and in return for letting the label use it in the film, the band met Drew Barrymore. Static Prevails, along with Clarity and their fifth studio Futures (2004), was re pressed on vinyl in 2014.

Static Prevails was met with mixed reviews from music critics. AllMusic reviewer Mike DaRonco stated that "what Static Prevails essentially lacks is the songwriting maturity that Jimmy Eat World could have perfected; but it's almost as if the studio heads at Capitol wouldn't let them so that there would be more room for radio friendly pop songs. In the end, nobody won." BBC Music writer Tim Nelson opened his review asking if the album title was "presumably meant ironically", as "staying still is one thing this propulsive pop album [ ] doesn't do." In his eyes, the music "crosses the abyss between indie indulgence and soul sucking corporate pap with aplomb". Barbara Restaino of Lollipop Magazine said that she though she would "really like it" to begin with, however, Adkins and Linton's voices "started to annoy me" after a while. Michael Carriere viewed Static Prevails and Clarity as landmarks in the second wave of emo. In 2012, Jason Heller of The A. V. Club noted, "As with so many punk bands that signed to a major during that decade, Jimmy Eat World gained precious few new fans—and lost many old ones—with Static Prevails." Coinciding with the album's 25th anniversary, Bandbox and Captiol Records released a version of the album with an accompanying booklet written by Alex Rice. He highlighted five songs from the band's catalogue – "Believe in What You Want" from Clarity, "Bleed American" from Bleed American (2001), "Futures" from their fifth studio album Futures (2004), "Action Needs an Audience" from their seventh studio album Invented (2010), and "Pol Roger" from their ninth studio album Integrity Blues (2016) – that drew influence from Static Prevails. Andrew Sacher of BrooklynVegan felt that "Claire" was the "earliest example of what Jimmy Eat World would achieve artistically" with Clarity.