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fter establishing a berth at mainstream radio with "Dare You to Move" (from its 2003 album, "The Beautiful Letdown"), earnest San Diego rock band Switchfoot hasn't quite managed to complete its crossover from the Christian-music scene that first embraced the group. The band's latest release, "Hello Hurricane," may (and should) change that: It's a sleekly presented modern-rock album with no shortage of bruising guitars or catchy choruses. Like much of U2's work, these songs wrap a faith-based message in a secular package. Switchfoot produced "Hello Hurricane" with Mike Elizondo, and the album's varied arrangements reflect his diverse résumé. On "Needle and Haystack Life," singer Jon Foreman works his breathy croon over surging pop-punk guitars; "This Is the Sound" has a brutish, heavy-metal vibe; "Enough" rides a percolating art-folk groove; and "Bullet Soul" could be something by Swedish garage rock band the Hives.-Mikael Wood...full text |
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| Pastemagazin |
Yes, the voice of Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman does sound more than a little like Bono’s, especially on U2-conjuring anthems like “Always.” And sure — with the band’s wide-angle, phones-in-the-air approach seemingly aimed for the nosebleed seats, Switchfoot has much in common with arena-rocking peers like Coldplay and Snow Patrol.
You don’t listen to Switchfoot for groundbreaking originality. The band’s seventh full-length is meat-and-potatoes arena rock polished to a gleaming sheen (thanks to producer Mike Elizondo), wrapped around huge hooks and intercut by Foreman’s incisive, discontented lyrics, which almost always manage to translate sentiments rooted deeply in faith to universally relatable choruses. While Hello Hurricane has its share of aching ballads and mid-tempo head-nodders, the stars here are all-out rockers like “Mess of Me,” “The Sound (John M. Perkins Blues)” and “Bullet Soul,” which feature some of the most aggressive sounds this San Diego crew has ever recorded....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| By the time Switchfoot returned to autonomy with 2009's Hello Hurricane, the post-CCM quintet had learned so much from the rat race of their grueling Columbia years their new batch of songs appeared too effortless to be true. The multiplatinum glories of 2003's The Beautiful Letdown, while never replicated, taught the group to grow comfortable in its modern-rock skin -- to accept its status as a band for the people. That explains why Hello Hurricane is almost devoid of surprises and offers exactly what the people want: an assemblage of straight-ahead rock anthems, free from left-of-center experiments, bouncy power-pop numbers, or obligatory balladry. All of the above were at some point part of Switchfoot's line of attack, but here they fall by the wayside in exchange for no-nonsense anthems of purpose and faith. That thematic line has become the norm for Jon Foreman, who still appears to be on a lifelong quest to find meaning in a meaningless world ("Free"), decry the futility of the here and now ("Needle and Haystack Life"), and inspire the world to live for something more ("Mess of Me"). For all this familiarity, Foreman, perhaps inspired by the openness of his own solo material, seems more forthright than ever about his convictions -- he still won't refer to the subject of his devotion by name, but emotive slow-burners like "Your Love Is a Song," "Sing It Out," and "Always" are clear-cut about who's on the receiving end of his entreaties. Like other colleagues who started out in the CCM ghetto and moved on to the big leagues only to later scale back and start all over again, Switchfoot appears to have found its footing -- Hello Hurricane is by far the San Diego rockers' most natural, effortless outing to date....full text |
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