Claude says:Adam Levine's Los Angeles pop-rock outfit started as high school band Kara's Flowers before rebranding in 2001 and breaking through with their 2002 debut Songs About Jane — a quadruple-platinum blockbuster that won them a Grammy for Best New Artist. This anniversary edition polishes up the funk-inflected guitar rock and blue-eyed soul hooks that made them unavoidable in the early 2000s. You gave "Harder to Breathe" a spin in late 2024, then circled back once more the following summer — more of a curiosity check than the start of anything.