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But it’s still mostly what I do about internal politics, the friction between, the impact human beings have on each other.” So yeah, I realize that that’s kind of like part of the energy, the narrative energy, of the record. But there’s a song called ‘The Kids Are Coming to Take You Down,’ and that song is kind of inspired by them. I only write from an emotional standpoint. So I see somebody like Emma Gonzalez (a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL and gun control advocate) or Greta Thunberg (young climate change activist), David Hogg (also a survivor of the Parkland shooting), and I’m like ‘All right, all right.’ I don’t write anything political. “I see us moving into this really kind of dystopian world, but at the same time I’m so inspired by the energy of so many people, just really the young activists right now are the things that give me the most hope. “This is kind of an album about passion and friction and vitality and aliveness in the space of dystopia,” Jenkins said. The lyrics for the songs on “Screamer” have moments that are timely, provocative and also quite personal – ingredients that should enable “Screamer” to meet Jenkins’ standards for Third Eye Blind music. There has to be something where you are permeable, where you are vulnerable and that’s what rock and roll is, the courage to put that out there.”
You have to have something in there, in the song, where you are telling a truth that was uncovered. One is I’m trying to create this landscape that you can live inside, but that doesn’t matter without that revelatory moment. “I’ve come to learn that I’m kind of always doing two things in songs. “But I also think I’m always looking for something that’s revelatory,” he said. “I just feel like everything is so safe and like so much music, it sounds like artists don’t want to have their choices impugned, or, like they’re relying on something that works. It’s like the whole thing was keep the edge, keep it weird,” Jenkins said. “Nothing’s safe, no smoothed-out edges, nothing like that at all. On a musical level, he said “Screamer” is more raw than other Third Eye Blind efforts – no small statement for a band that has often rocked hard, even though its songs also have boasted considerable melody. “So yeah, it’s really (saying) I don’t want to be limited to LPs, but this one did turn into an LP.” “Isn’t it funny, because I said I’m not going to make LPs anymore, and here I am about to put out an LP,” Jenkins said in a recent phone interview. Jenkins was ready for the EP to become the primary format for Third Eye Blind music – that was until the band’s next helping of music began to come together. It’s a thought that’s occurring to plenty of music acts these days, given the way the major label music industry emphasizes singles and how streaming encourages putting out music in small batches. More information: Visit or .Ī couple of years ago, Stephan Jenkins, frontman of Third Eye Blind, announced that the group would no longer make full-length albums. Where: Both December dates are at Belly Up in Aspen the March date is at Mission Ballroom in Denver. What: Third Eye Blind tour Colorado dates