Futures gave the band two basic paths forward. An album packed of songs like “Disintegration” and “Closer”? Count me in.Ĭhase This Light was decidedly not that record. (I was 13 when the former came out and 16 for the arrival of the latter.) The wait was eased a bit by the 2005 release of the Stay on My Side Tonight EP, but the dark, moody nature of those songs only made me want a full-length. As often happens when you’re young, the three years that stretched between the Octorelease of Futures and the Octorelease of Chase This Light seemed to last an eternity.

Futures had been a game-changer for me, the album that transformed me from a budding music listener into a voracious, lifelong die-hard.

I’m not sure I have ever anticipated a new album with quite the furor that I anticipated Jimmy Eat World’s Chase This Light in the fall of 2007.