Switchfoot is releasing a new album! It is their 8th studio record. They are honestly one of our favorite bands. Not only for around the house music, but I love them for working out too! I could probably listen to them, and them alone, most every day. Here is a little about the album:
“Vice Verses is a record of tension and release. It’s an attempt to describe the polarity of the human experience. The sunlight and shadow. The highs and lows, laughter and pain, hope and fear, doubts and belief,” says lead singer/guitarist Jon Foreman. In the title track, he writes, “‘Every blessing comes with a set of curses. I got my vices. I got my vice verses.’ So we live in the tension – pulled and stretched thin. Vice Verses is soul music – attempting to get to the heart of the human experience: Living in the tension and turning it into song.”
“Vice Verses is soul music – attempting to get to the heart of the human experience: Living in the tension and turning it into song.”
Vice Verses is the work of a band that is so restless, they devote an entire song (“Restless”) to the condition. It’s that very
uneasiness – an unwillingness to choose the treadmill over the triathlon – that fuels the band’s forays into new musical
territory and Jon Foreman’s unflinchingly honest lyrics. You can hear the tension build along with the first chords of album
opener “Afterlife,” leading into a bold statement of intent: “I’ve tasted fire I’m ready to come alive/I can’t just shut it up and
fake that I’m alright/I’m ready now/I’m not waiting for the afterlife….I believe we start forever now.”
The track listing for Vice Verses is as follows:
1. Afterlife
2. The Original
3. The War Inside
4. Restless
5. Blinding Light
6. Selling the News
7. Thrive
8. Dark Horses
9. Souvenirs
10. Rise Above It
11. Vice Verses
12. Where I Belong
There is not one song that I don’t like. If you are looking for a new album to add to your collection that is just a good, all around album, you need to check this one out!
I’ll leave you with a music video from Switchfoot for their Dark Horses:
*I received product to facilitate this review. The opinions expressed are my own.*
