Chase This Light is the sixth studio album by American rock band Jimmy Eat World.

Butch Vig was enlisted as an executive producer, acting in a consultancy role, where he would provide feedback on the material.

It was met with a favorable reaction from music critics, a few of them noted a return to the sound of Bleed American (2001).

"Always Be" was released as a single in December; the group had a support slot for the Foo Fighters and went on a tour of Europe and Japan in early 2008.

[4] The album was promoted with headlining stints in the US, Europe and Japan, followed by a co-headlining US tour with Taking Back Sunday, and a support slot for Green Day in the UK and the US, leading into October 2005.

[9] Despite initial reporting that said Butch Vig would travel from Madison, Wisconsin to work with the band in Tempe, Arizona,[10] he ended up in a consultant-esque role.

[11] Sessions were held at Unit 2 in Tempe with engineer Chris Testa; the band handled additional recording.

A string session was held at Conway Studios in Los Angeles for "Gotta Be Somebody's Blues", arranged and conducted by David Campbell.

[11] Subsequently, the band and Testa earned a split producer credit; John Fields co-produced "Here It Goes" and did additional production on "Big Casino", "Let It Happen", "Always Be", "Electable (Give It Up)", "Feeling Lucky" and "Dizzy".

[12] Recording lasted for three weeks until late August, when the band took a break to play shows in the US and Europe.

The band took a break around the Christmas period to write additional songs, and recorded more material during a few weeks in March 2007.

[30] "Firefight" was reminiscent of the band's early records with its punk rock and post-hardcore guitars;[19][30] it talks about new things coming across as important.

[7] "Dizzy" is stylistically similar to Hysteria (19)-era Def Lappard,[28] as well as "My Sundown" from their fourth studio album Bleed American (2001),[30] and includes keyboard from Fields and Stephen Lu.

[32] In July 2007, the band went on a tour of the US, before doing several shows in South Africa as well as appearing at several festival dates in Europe the following month.

[33] On July 30, Chase This Light was announced for release in three months' time;[7] the track listing was posted on August 15.

[7] From here until the album's release, the group went on a North American tour, which included an appearance at the X96 Big Ass Show radio festival.

[38] The iTunes edition included the Bruce Springsteen cover "Take 'Em as They Come", alongside an acoustic version of "Dizzy".

"[66] Slant Magazine's Jonathan Keefe called it "a return to form for the band in terms of their ingratiating power-pop", praising the tracks "Big Casino" and "Always Be" for their instantly catchy instrumentation and melodies that make up the overall tone of the album.

"[19] Spin journalist Andrew Beaujon praised Jim Adkins' vocal delivery for having a "youthful tang" that sells the songs about "getting older and maybe a little more cynical."

"[67] AllMusic editor Tim Sendra was ambivalent towards the record, commending the return to Bleed American material that's made up of "rousing anthems ("Big Casino")", "melancholy rockers with singalong choruses ("Chase This Light")" and "sweet ballads ("Dizzy")" but was critical of the dry and airless production, the vocals sounding passionless and the unimaginative lyricism, saying that its "nice to listen to and vaguely uplifting, but ultimately empty on the inside."

"[28] Andrew Blackie of PopMatters was also disappointed with the album coming across as "a weaker, limper version" of Futures, criticizing producer Butch Vig for making the band sound "processed and sterile" and the lyrical content for being "juvenile and sapped in self-important, happy-go-lucky sentiments."

He concluded that "[M]ore disappointing than that, though, is the fact that there is hardly anything groundbreaking to be found in Chase This Light's 40 minutes, which is less than we’ve come to expect from this band.

"[27] Chase This Light debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling around 62,000 copies in its first week,[69] making it the band's highest-charting album in the United States.