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Blender
Drowned in Sound	10/10
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Los Angeles Times
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Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine
USA Today
The Village Voice	C+

Bleed American is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Jimmy Eat World. It was released on July 24, 2001 by DreamWorks Records. It was the first recording launched after signing the band a few months prior. The album was re-released as Jimmy Eat World after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. that took place a month after its initial release.

The album was recorded with producer Mark Trombino in Los Angeles. The musical style was more direct and accessible than its predecessor, Clarity (1999), and received great commercial success. Bleed American yielded four singles: "Bleed American", "The Middle", "Sweetness", and "A Praise Chorus"; and they all managed to enter the top twenty of the US charts. The most successful was "The Middle", which reached the number-one spot on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. In March 2002, Bleed American was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, and it was certified platinum that August after its sales reached over one million copies.

On April 29, 2008, Geffen Records released a deluxe edition containing the original album and other bonus material. The deluxe edition included several B-sides, acoustic versions, live tracks, demos and unreleased songs. The album's title and first track were restored to Bleed American. As of September 2016, the album has sold over 1.6 million copies.

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