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Bio
 Switchfoot, the San Diego-based power trio that caught the Christian music industry flat-footed with its 1997 debut, The Legend of Chin, and then had the nerve to follow it up with a brilliant sophomore project, New Way to Be Human, is back. While most bands grow arithmetically, Switchfoot has progressed exponentially.
Maybe it's the production collaboration of three-time Dove-award-winning producer Charlie Peacock and mainstream producer Jacquire King (Third Eye Blind). Maybe it's the honing of skills that comes from three years of incessant touring. Maybe it's the discipline that comes from writing a new song every day, as frontman Jonathan Foreman does. Whatever it is, the effect is mesmerizing.
Learning to Breathe, Switchfoot's latest release, cannily combines acoustic and electric-guitar-driven power-pop wrapped around modern ruminations of ancient truths. "The tension is here / Between who you are and who you could be / Between how it is and how it should be / …Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell," Jon Foreman sings with a passion that seems caught between challenging the doubter and challenging the truth.
Exploring themes of broken humanity, spiritual rebirth, and learning to live in the newness of life in Christ, Switchfoot rides the tension between what is and what should be with a delicate confidence. Best tracks include the alternately acoustic and distorted "Love Is the Movement," the West Coast alterna-rocker "Innocence Again," and the sweetly metaphorical "The Economy of Grace."
Mike Parker
CDNOW Contributing Writer
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Tour
June
6/22 Canal Fulton, OH (Alive Festival, 6pm)
6/23 Springfield, OH
6/24 Defiance, OH
6/28 Mt. Union, PA (Creation Festival)
6/30 Dallas, TX (Celebrate Freedom Fest)
July
7/5 Garden Valley, TX
7/6 Oklahoma City, OK
7/7 Auburn, CA
7/8 Phoenix, AZ
7/12 Fullerton, CA (Glasshouse, 714.573.0264)
7/13 Oshkosh, WI (Lifefest)
7/14 Wilmar, MN (Sonshine Festival)
7/21 Pensacola, FL
7/26 George, WA (Creation Festival, The Gorge)
August
8/1 Grand Haven, MI
8/4 Lincoln, NH (Inside Out Festival)
8/6 Darien Lake, NY (Kingdom Bound Festival)
8/7 Palm Springs, CA
8/18 Netherlands, (Flevo Festival)
8/21 UK, Soul Survivor Festival
8/23 UK, Edinburgh Arts Festival
8/25 UK, Greenbelt Festival
September
see www.festivalcondios.com
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Albums
Learning To Breathe
01. I Dare You To Move
02. Learning To Breathe
03. You Already Take Me There
04. Love Is The Movement
05. Poparazzi
06. Innocence Again
07. Playing For Keeps
08. The Loser
09. The Economy Of Mercy
10. Erosion
11. Living Is Simple
No Way To Be Human
01. New Way To Be Human
02. Incomplete
03. Sooner Or Later (Soren's Song)
04. Company Car
05. Let That Be Enough
06. Something More (Augustine's Confession)
07. Only
08. Amy's Song
09. I Turn Everything Over
10. Under The Floor
Legend Of Chin
01. Bomb
02. Chem 6A
03. Underwater
04. Edge Of My Seat
05. Home
06. Might Have Ben Hur
07. Concrete Girl
08. Life And Love And Why
09. You
10. Ode To Chin
11. Don't Be There
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