Futures: История создания альбома Jimmy Eat World

Futures is the fifth studio album by American rock band Jimmy Eat World, released on October 19, 2004, through Interscope Records. After touring in support of Bleed American (2001) for two years, the band returned home and began working on new material by mid 2003. Following fruitless sessions with producer Mark Trombino, the band re grouped and recorded with Gil Norton. The sessions lasted from February to May 2004 and were held at various studios in California and Arizona. Described as encompassing several rock styles, Futures included more solos and complex guitar parts than past releases, intended to expand on the atmosphere of their third studio album Clarity (1999). The songs on the album were compared to the work of Jets to Brazil and Maritime, while some of the guitar parts echoed the sound of Fugazi and Hüsker Dü. Futures was met with favorable reaction from music critics, many of whom found it an enjoyable listen and praised the songwriting. It charted at number 6 on the US Billboard 200 after selling 98,000 copies in its first week. It would go on to sell over 615,000 copies, and was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). "Pain" was released as the album's lead single in August 2004. Futures was promoted with headlining tours of the US, Europe, and Japan, before the band toured with Green Day in the US, the UK, and Australia. Jimmy Eat World followed the album with two further singles, "Work" in December 2004 and "Futures" in May 2005. Some publications, such as Blender, Rolling Stone, and Spin included the album on their list of the year's best releases. "Pain" was later certified gold by the RIAA and peaked at number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Work" and "Futures" both reached the top 30 of the radio only Alternative Airplay chart, with the former peaking higher at number six.

In July 2001, Jimmy Eat World released their fourth studio album, Bleed American, through major label DreamWorks Records. It became a commercial success, selling over 1.3 million copies, being certified platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Due to the album's popularity, the band promoted it with two years of touring, which made it hard for the members to unwind after returning home. In May 2003, vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins said that the band had a lot of new material and would record sometime thereafter with Mark Trombino in Los Angeles, California. Trombino worked with the band previously, having produced Static Prevails (1996), Clarity (1999), and Bleed American. Jimmy Eat World began pre production in mid July with Trombino, where they worked on 18 songs. Recording began in early August, with the aim of working on 14 songs. By September 2003, after five weeks, recording sessions were nearly finished. The group reached a breaking point with Trombino as they ran out of song ideas; their disagreements led to Trombino's departure from the project, The band subsequently took a break and performed a few shows. The following month, the band's label, DreamWorks, was bought by Universal Music Group and absorbed into Interscope Records in January 2004.

Jimmy Eat World regrouped sometime after The band had been working with Trombino for around 10 years and wanted to see what ideas another producer would suggest. The members had liked albums by the different acts that producer Gil Norton had previously produced, such as the Pixies, The Distillers, and Dashboard Confessional. Norton spent two days at the band's own studio, Norton enjoyed the demos and was enlisted by the band to produce their next album. Sessions were concluded in May 2004, with mixing taking place from mid June over the course of a month, with Costey at Cello Studios. He was assisted in this process by Claudius Mittendorfer with secondary engineer Dan Leffler. Costey mixed "Drugs or Me" at Avatar Studios in New York City with secondary engineer Ross Petersen. Ted Jensen then mastered the recordings at Sterling Sound in New York City. arena rock, emo, pop punk, The album saw the band shy away from the pop influenced sound of Bleed American and expand on the mood of Clarity. Adkins viewed the release as a sequel to Clarity, with which Futures shared greater musical density. When working on material, Adkins would show the band a rough outline of it, which the rest of the members would flesh out and potentially add further instrumentation, such as piano. Discussing the title, Adkins said it could be perceived in different ways: "It's pessimistic, it's optimistic, and hopeful, and greedy all at the same time." Lind compared its darker sound to the middle portion of Clarity and said the album's second half was more atmospheric than their previous work. Some of the material on the album dated back to when the band was recording Bleed American, while other material had existed for only two weeks prior to the band entering the studio for Futures. Linton said producer Norton provided a number of "really good" song ideas in regards to the sound and final arrangements. while some of the guitar lines recalled Hüsker Dü and Fugazi. The lyrics delve into darker subject matter, such as despair, politics, Adkins said several tracks were influenced by the presidency of George W. Bush; he said he was "reacting to the political climate of that period".

The opening song, "Futures", was a mid tempo track that was compared to other acts Norton had worked with, such as Foo Fighters and the Pixies. In an earlier iteration of the song, the bridge section was a wall of loud guitars, instead of the final version where it shifts to acoustic guitars and a Rhodes piano. One of lines from the song's chorus – "Trade up for the fast ride" – is taken verbatim from "In the Same Room", a track from Static Prevails. "Just Tonight " was in the vein of "Run to You" by Bryan Adams, "Just Tonight " was one of the earliest songs written for the album, and ended up receiving constant minor changes during the writing process. The track was originally called "Sex You Up"; Lind said its final name "Just Tonight " was a reference to Color Me Badd. "Kill" opens with a piano and acoustic guitar intro, Lind had discovered a piece of music that became "Kill" partway through writing when looking through their ideas on a computer. It was had scratch vocals from Adkins and a 30 second acoustic guitar part. Lind was impressed that out of all the ideas they had, this section had fallen by the wayside. He showed the clip to Adkins, when the pair quickly expanded it into a full song. "Drugs or Me" is a piano and feedback led ballad the guitar part was a mix of "Frontwards" by Pavement and "Hysteria" by Def Leppard. specifically the track "Get It Faster". On July 30, the album's track listing was revealed. Samples of three new tracks—"Futures", "Nothingwrong", and "Night Drive"—were posted on the group's website shortly afterwards. while the other featured the demo "Shame", a live recording of "Yer Feet", and the video for "Pain". The video, which premiered on September 14 through Launch. com, It was shot in North Bridge, California. On October 11, Futures was made available for streaming through MTV's website before being released on October 19 through Interscope Records. The artwork was a photograph taken by Christopher Wray McCann Bonus tracks were added to various versions: "Shame" on the vinyl and European CD versions; "Shame", "When I Want", and "You" on the Japanese edition. Some promotional copies featured the extra track "Jen", which was left off the album, as Adkins felt it was out of place. while the Japanese version featured "Shame", "When I Want", "You", demos of these three tracks, alongside "Sparkle", an acoustic version of "Work", and a cover of "The Concept" by Teenage Fanclub. "Work" was released to radio on December 7, 2004. To coincide with the UK stint of a European tour, "Work" was released as a single there in March 2005. The CD single included the glitch musician Styrofoam's remix of "Drugs or Me" and an acoustic version of "Work", as well as the song's music video. The 7" vinyl featured a cover of the Teenage Fanclub track "The Concept". Futures was released to radio on May 10, 2005. In 2014, the band went on a celebratory 10th anniversary tour for the album, where they played it live in its entirety, touring the US, Australia, and New Zealand. To coincide with this, Futures, alongside Static Prevails and Clarity, was re pressed on vinyl.

In late August and early September 2004, the band performed at the Street Scene and Summerfest festivals. Later in September, the group played two shows in the UK. To promote its release, the band played in store gigs, held listening parties at Fast Forward chain stores, and a session for Launch. com. They appeared on Daily Download, Throughout December, the band played a series of radio festivals. In January 2005, they went on a brief, two week US tour with Elefant and Reuben's Accomplice. In February and March 2005, the group went on a European tour, which ended with a stint in the UK. At the end of March, the band performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. A short series of shows in Japan led into a two month US arena tour, co headlining with Taking Back Sunday in April and May. Some shows featured supporting acts the Format and Mates of State. Jimmy Eat World supported Green Day for two shows in the UK in June, In late August, the group performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. In December, the group again supported Green Day, for two shows in Australia.

Futures was well received by music critics upon its release. On the review aggregating website Metacritic, the album obtained an average score of 73, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Prior to the release of Chase This Light (2007), Futures had sold over 615,000 copies. Futures was certified gold in the US by the RIAA in March 2005, which was followed by gold certification of "Pain" two months later. Outside the US, Futures reached number seven in Canada, number 27 on Digital Song Sales, and number 93 on the Hot 100. "Work" charted at number six on Alternative Airplay, "Futures" charted at number 27 on Alternative Airplay. It was ranked at number 44 in Kerrang!s "50 Albums You Need to Hear Before You Die" list. Mayday Parade drummer Jake Bundrick cited the album as an inspiration, while Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low has expressed admiration for it. Three of the album's songs, namely, "Just Tonight ", "Work", and "Nothingwrong", were covered by Australian acts for the tribute album Sing It Back: A Tribute to Jimmy Eat World (2015).