Jeremy Enigk

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The last time Jeremy Enigk, the singer and songwriter for emocore pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate and The Fire Theft, released a solo album, Hilary was testifying about Whitewater, Dolly was being cloned, and the Ramones were about to play their last gig.

It’s been awhile.

That album, 1996’s Return of the Frog Queen earned Enigk raves from critics and fans alike for its lush pop orchestration and enigmatic lyrics. Since then, he’s put out three more discs with Sunny Day, plus The Fire Theft’s debut. But now he’s back with World Waits to pick up where he left off a decade ago. And he starts, appropriately enough, with a triumphant track called “A New Beginning.”

“I realized that starting off the record with such a bombastic thing had a tie-in to 'Return of the Frog Queen,’” Enigk says, “as if it were taking off where ‘Frog Queen’ left off.”

Of course, no one who has followed Enigk’s roller coaster career — band break-ups, band reunions, a controversial conversion to Christianity in the mid-‘90s — would expect him to be the same person he was 10 years ago. And he’s not.

“I’ve grown and changed, mainly spiritually,” he says. “I think I’ve become a lot more accepting of things I wasn’t back then. Through experiences, I’ve opened up a little bit. You just grow up.”

Enigk assembled the songs on World Waits over the course of the past decade. Among the 10 cuts are two that were slated for a follow up to ROTFQ that was interrupted by Sunny Day Real Estate activity, others that Enigk originally intended for The Fire Theft, and still others written as recently as six months ago.

He calls the ruminative title track his “love song to the world.”

“There are simple solutions to simple problems,” he said. “People are starving — feed ‘em. As an American especially, it’s so easy for me to put on blinders and live in TV land. That frustrates me, that laziness to take responsibility.”

If World Waits has more rock and less chamber texture than its predecessor, they both share a timelessness in sound that has roots in Enigk’s lifelong love for The Beatles, The Who and vintage U2.

Enigk co-produced World Waits with Josh Myers, who has arranged strings for artists ranging from indie songwriter Rosie Thomas to pop singer Mandy Moore. While Enigk primarily handled guitar and vocals on the album, he also contributed bass, drums and keyboards to various songs. Drummer Kaanan Tupper, bassist Nick Macri and guitarist Greg Saran round out the album’s primary players.

World Waits will be released October 17 through Enigk’s own Lewis Hollow Records, which will be distributed by Reincarnate Records through SONY BMG.


1. New Beginning
2. Been Here Before -mp3 -
3. River to Sea
4. City Tonight
5. Cannons
6. Damien Dreams
7. Wayward Love
8. Dare a Smile
9. World Waits
10. Burn