Once a trailblazing name in the mid-'90s emo scene, Jimmy Eat World eventually found a larger audience by embracing a blend of alternative rock and power pop that targeted the heart as well as the head. Juddging from the open letter announcing their ninth album ‘Integrity Blues’,  Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins had spent the band’s first-ever hiatus soul-searching. It resulted in the expansive, emotionally weathered ‘Integrity Blues’, that sounds nothing like breakthrough single “The Middle,” but it’s perhaps their best record since then on account of being its unlikely spiritual sequel.