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. 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. 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. “The gift that’s been given to me is that people view my music as enlivening them.“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. “It’s an incredible feeling to be in a good rock band,” adds Jenkins. (Third Eye Blind has offset the tour’s carbon footprint by donating a portion of each ticket sold to a US-based carbon offset project managed by ClimeCo.) The biggest tour in the band’s history will wrap August 3 in Irvine, CA with Jimmy Eat World and Ra Ra Riot.
Going strong for over two decades, Third Eye Blind have broken their own attendance records with 2019’s Summer Gods tour. “We have always been so insular,” says Jenkins, “and on Screamer we adopted an open door policy - come in, be musical, and follow the song where it takes us.” “I seek to combine it with a percussive level of musical immediacy in this collection of songs to cultivate collective idealism and an unapologetic aspiration towards humanistic values.” “My current mood resonates with rebellion, energy, courage, and risk,” says Stephan Jenkins, on Third Eye Blind’s sixth full length album, Screamer (October 18). The follow up to 2018’s EP Thanks for Everything, Screamer finds Third Eye Blind collaborating with Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells (“Screamer”), Ryan Olson of Marijuana Death Squad and Poliça (“Who Am I” and “Got So High”), and the album’s musical consigliere, Billy Corgan.
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