Thanks for Everything by Third Eye Blind

Thanks for Everything, a 2018 EP from Third Eye Blind, is Stephan Jenkins keeping a promise. After six-year droughts between studio albums, he'd sworn off the long-player in favor of shorter, more frequent drops, and We Are Drugs had already made good on it. This one, out on August 24, 2018, takes a sideways step: seven covers, every song hand-picked by Jenkins himself.

It wasn't the original plan. The EP meant to come next, Summer Gods, was supposed to push the band into new territory, trap beats included, but it wasn't ready in time for the tour it was named after and turned into a live record instead. So the lineup that had finally settled in around Jenkins, with Brad Hargreaves on drums, Kryz Reid on lead guitar, Alex Kopp on keyboards and Alex LeCavalier on bass, played other people's songs: a breather from a band that, for once, had a steady crew to breathe with.

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