Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues (October 21, 2016) Album • Page 19

You've never listened to Augustana? Don't want to get too far off topic in this thread, but go listen to Can't Love, Can't Hurt right now.

 

Really great album. Really not a big fan of the rest of their output. Saw them live once too and really put me off their newer stuff

 

This album is pretty cool. Thanks for the suggestion command

edit: ugh wtf the emoji's go over the spoiler bar. haha

 

I oughta listen to more of their stuff. Boston is great. Got one of their CDs up in my room somewhere

 

Really like all of Augustana's stuff, though Can't Love, Can't Hurt is definitely their finest hour.

 

Get Right is good but Sure and Certain is pretty much everything I could have wanted from a new JEW single. So excited.

 

Thankfully the album artwork is along the same line of the singles one. That said, I preferred both of them. This would be better with a smaller font and with a medium shot, allowing more background to be seen.

Anyway, this joins Futures' and Invented' aesthetic as a perfect encapsulation of what Jimmy Eat World is for me. Contemplative loneliness and hopeless romanticism in the midst of a city at night that somehow manages to feel homelike. This quote I love from Victor Hugo kinda sums it: "Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad".

 

I agree with the observations of the aesthetics, but I'll add: The first thing that stood out to me with the new album cover, is the fact that, while it has a dreary vibe to it, the woman's bright jacket sort of pierces it all. I'm curious to see how the album reflects this. I usually don't dissect album covers much, but JEW seems to really get it right every time.

 

Futures is probably my favorite album cover ever. Captures the vibe of that record so well, and is a beautiful image to boot.

 

Yeah Futures and Invented have my favorite album covers ever.

What is the CTL cover supposed to be it looks like an avocado

 

it's a peacock feather

 

I would not have guessed that but cool ty

 

the thing I love about the invented cover is that it drives me crazy because I can't figure out what room she's going into. sometimes it looks like a balcony, other times a bathroom, other times a lab. kind of goes along with the character writing on that record

 

So you're telling me it's not an avocado

 

if your avocado is that many colors do not eat it

trust me i work in a sandwich shop i know

 

It's not an acacado, either

 

When I worked at Chilis we dealt with many avocados so yeah if it's more than 1 color then it's fucked

stupid autocorrect

 

imo the woman on the invented cover is walking into an avocado

 

It happens to the best of us!

 

This whole time I thought it was an avocado this day is wild

 

Come on man, this ain't Pearl Jam's self-titled record.

 

What a reference this is well done

 

The original static prevails cover was nice

 

I believe from the style of doors that the lady on the cover of Invented is walking into the kitchen of a restaurant. The dress and hairstyle always made me think she was Asian.

I like the ambiguity of their covers in that sense, like someone is living their life and we get to watch/listen. Also why Damage's artwork sucked so heavily.

 

I can say with complete honesty that I have never once mistaken the peacock feather on CTL's cover for an avocado haha