Jimmy Eat World fans generally reside in one of two camps: those who remember the Arizona band as a torch-bearer of second-wave emo (vis à vis 1996's Static Prevails and 1999's Clarity), and those who became fans after "The Middle" made 2001's Bleed American a platinum-seller. With Chase This Light, the former will see Jimmy Eat World complete its inexorable march toward middling pop-rock, while the latter won't find anything as simple and catchy as "The Middle"—they'll find plenty that's just as generic, though.
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