In a recent interview with Phoenix People, Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World was asked how the band’s anticipated new record is compared to their last one (2010′s Invented). He states:

“We’re not quite finished with it yet, and I think a lot of what makes your final product is the mixing. It can really determine the presentation of it, and we haven’t done that yet. What I’m hoping to get out of it, the way we’ve been recording it, it’s a lot less slick. It’s not to say we didn’t take our time and mix it and make sure performances were good and things were sounding good, I think we just had a better sense of what to let go and what to focus on. That comes from paying more attention to the vibe of things rather than the perfection of things. The short answer is that it’s definitely rougher-sounding, a little grittier. I don’t think it’s going to sound like anything we’ve done. It’ll be similar yet different.”

The new Jimmy Eat World album is reportedly due for release in the first half of next year, and contrary to popular belief, it won’t be released on their longtime home Interscope Records.