Album Review: Jimmy Eat World - Invented

For Jimmy Eat World's seventh studio full-length brought back in the services of Mark Trombino, the same producer who worked on the bands best work; 1999's 'Clarity' and the following 'Bleed American' album two years later. Nine years and two releases later, Trombino and the Arizona four-piece have reunited for 'Invented'. Opening with an acoustic guitar and hand claps, we're given a less-urgent JEW but lead singer Jim Adkins is as open and honest as ever. Soft, sweeping strings come and light notes twinkle in the later stages, to create a heavenly and harmonising opening.

Throughout their career the band have continuous shown the ability to write killer hooks, with lead single 'My Best Theory' being the latest in the line of these. Whilst not as sudden or impressionable as past singles, it still thrives on the bands driving guitar work and energetic performance. For the most part 'Invented' lives on driving "radio-friendly" numbers like 'Evidence' and 'Action Needs an Audience'; both in places remind of circa 1998 Foo Fighters and the fast-paced 'Coffee and Cigarettes' with its high harmonies and is Jimmy Eat World at their best.