All Things Goofy

I recently had the privilege of reviewing Switchfoot’s latest album over at Youth Minsitry Exchange.  Here is a sample…follow the link to the actual article!

For three long years a storm has been building on the horizon.  Changes in the atmosphere have taken place – a new in-home studio, a new label, and a return to a sense of purpose.  Hello Hurricane, the seventh studio album from the San Diego quintet Switchfoot, clearly shows the effects of those changes.  “We built our own studio so we wouldn’t be paying and playing by the hour,” says frontman Jon Foreman.  Prepare for a musical storm.

The first single, “Mess of Me”, lays the foundation for the lyrical heart of this album.  “I am my own affliction,” the song so honestly lays out.  The riffs are pounding and usually I find myself jumping up and down before the song ends, concluding,   “I’ve made a mess of me, I want to spend the rest of my life alive!”  While “Your Love is a Song” is a calmer, more melodic offering in which Foreman harmoniously declares, “I’ve got my eyes wide open, I’ve been keeping my hopes unbroken.”

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