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“We’d make more albums if we didn’t like playing live so much,” declares Brad Hargreaves Jenkins adds, “In a way, I envy hip hop producers like Missy Elliott, who can stay home and make more records. One might construe three years between albums to be evidence of slacking, but nothing could be further from the truth. Their 1999 follow-up, Blue, approached double platinum on the strength of the Stones-inflected single “Never Let You Go” and a sold-out worldwide tour that lasted a year. They scaled the charts with the album and its first single “Semi Charmed Life” they then made clear their intention to stick around by reeling off four more undeniable rock anthems - “Graduate,” “How’s It Going To Be,” “Losing A Whole Year” and "Jumper." The album sold six million copies, and remained on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for well over a year. But as soon as real opportunity presented itself – in the form of their self-titled 1997 debut album with Elektra – they took it, and took off. In the mid ‘90s, Third Eye Blind spent a couple of years coming together, falling apart and coming together again, sleeping on floors and playing on the barely-existent San Francisco club scene.
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It retains the band’s rock songcraft, but it also captures the kind of jamming and improvising that happens when musicians become keenly tuned in to one another.
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Out Of The Vein is a diverse and powerful statement of where the band is right now, thirteen songs full of energy, tension, contradiction and beauty – raw but lovely, lush but stripped. One listen makes it clear they have achieved their goal. “I think we’ve opened a vein, so to speak, and we’re going to let it bleed.”įor a band that has always found inspiration in authenticity and a DIY ethic, getting back to that place was essential to recording the album the band knew it could make. We’ve spent some time soul-searching, getting back to the nitty gritty.” According to Stephan, the album sessions mark the start of a creative period that will generate several more releases, including an EP, a live album and an “unplugged” album. “There’s been enough of a break that it isn’t a continuation. “This album is a beginning,” says Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins, of Out Of The Vein, the San Francisco quartet’s first new album in over three years.