Jimmy Eat World has announced they’ll be celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Futures” and 5th anniversary of “Surviving” by releasing the “Phoenix Sessions” for both on vinyl for the first time. Pre orders are up now (here). The band will also mark the pccasion with their only hometown J show of 2024 with the band performing “Futures” in its entirety on October 17 at The Van Buren in Phoenix, AZ. Tickets to this one-night-only event will be available beginning this coming Friday, August 16, at 10 a.m. local time at LiveNation.com.
When discussing the recording process for Futures, the band explains it was “our darkest album and was the hardest for us to make. Futures was the first record we made where we didn’t feel like we were making it anonymously.” (Futures arrived three years after their breakthrough, the platinum-certified Bleed American, which contained the enduring hit “The Middle.”)
Despite Futures “being a super challenging record to make,” they add, “we pushed through and ended up with an album we are super proud of to this day. Being able to reimagine it as a live recording so many years later for the Phoenix Sessions was an amazing experience, and we hope you enjoy reliving it again as much as we did.”
