“There’s something really powerful in making something very simple. There’s a slightly demented feeling of how far you can push it”: Jim Adkins and Zach Lind on the making of Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American – the record that changed their lives

Jimmy Eat World.

Some bands might let the fact they’ve got no label, no manager and no money get them down, but in 2001, when Jimmy Eat World were putting together the album that would change their lives, they just rolled with it and got down to work.

The Bleed American sessions of 2000 could be described as an exercise in financial brinksmanship and artistic freedom. Producer Mark Trombino, without whom there would have been no album, deferred payment. He believed so much in the band and their material that he could wait.