After an extended hiatus, Jaimee Eat World returns with the complete recreation of Jimmy Eat World’s 2004 album Futures arriving on September 19th 2024.

The album includes two b-sides, “Shame” and “What I Want.”

The band has been slowly trickling out the album all week on YouTube so you’re already able to snag a listen to most of it early. The final release arrives at 9AM on the 19th and the record will be available on all streaming services.

We snuck up on Jaimee Eat World in a dimly lit parking garage one day to ask your most pressing questions and we were just as shocked as you when she seemed unpurterbed by the disruption.

Those questions and answers below.

CF: When we last heard from you, you were pretty adamant that you weren’t going to continue the Jaimee Eat World restoration project. What changed?

Jaimee Eat World: A couple weeks ago I was excited that I’d been offered a new job opportunity. I was working at a pilates gym and I spent most days bored out of my skull or mildly annoyed about… this or that. It wasn’t exactly stimulating work, but it was work.

The new job was a remote one, so I had regained some hope that I might be able to move out of my home town this year. Signed the paper work and everything was good, I was due to start on Monday morning. On Friday evening, after having said all my goodbyes to my colleagues I got a call and the new job people just randomly rescinded the offer. I was stunned. In the interview process, they made a point to ask me if I was leaving an existing position for this new one they had for me, so they know full well the position they’d now put me in. The job market right now in Canada is insane and it’s really hard to find any sort of stable work which is why I’ve been keeping myself afloat working for gyms the last couple years.

I’ve been burned by jobs before, but this really took the cake for me as far as really hammering home the message that there is absolutely no loyalty or respect in most jobs anymore. We’re all just little numbers and pawns and they’ll turf you for any reason they see fit at whatever time they see fit with no regard to how that impact your life or ability to take care of yourself or your family. And all the laws greatly work in employers favours so you end up with little ability to fight back about any of it.

Anyways, so I took a day to just be stunned and try to remain calm knowing that I was back in a precarious situation and unsure of how I was going to pay any of my bills. And then the next day I started working on the Futures album.

CF: And how was that supposed to help with the job situation?

Jaimee Eat World: It wasn’t. But I figured if I was going to be poor for the rest of my life and living in my parents house, I might as well keep making records in my bedroom because that has been the only thing over the last couple years that’s really kept me going and feeling like I’m at least having fun even if it doesn’t necessarily go anywhere.

Having been dealing with some health concerns as well over the last couple years, I’m even more acutely aware that I could be dead tomorrow, so do I wanna go out slaving away for less than a living wage working for someone else or do I want to at least try to make something cool while I still have the time and ability to. I choose that one – making stuff for the sake of making stuff or making stuff to feel something.

CF: So how did you decide on Futures? Or are you still planning on doing all the albums?

Jaimee Eat World: The whole project came about because when I first decided to do a couple Jimmy Eat World covers, I just really couldn’t decide on which one. I love them all, so I thought it’d be fun to recreate them all. The order I do so usually just comes down to how I feel that day.

That said, Futures is arguably the most important record of theirs as far as how it’s been woven into my life and influenced a lot of what happened after I heard it. I started listening to this band before it came out, but the Futures tour back in 2004/2005 was the first time I’d seen them live and it made me want to start my first band.

Once I had that band and we got our first show booking, the song “Futures” was the first song on our set list, so it’s the first song I’ve ever performed live as well.

I viewed the world and my place in it a lot differently in 2004. I don’t think any of us ever imagined 2024 would be so bad.

CF: So you are still planning on recreating all the albums, or?

Jaimee Eat World: In time, I’m sure I will. But I am trying to balance these cover projects I do with my original work as well. It’s a lot to take on as a single person so I’m not trying to overwhelm myself by looking at the long list of uncompleted tracks. I don’t know when the next one will come out – I guess it depends on if I get another job or not!

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Jaimee Eat World “Futures” available everywhere September 19th 2024.