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SWITCHFOOT - Oh! Gravity
| Spin |
| When Switchfoot singer/guitarist Jon Foreman cries, "I don't know that I ever felt so alive" on the band's sixth album, he's probably describing a new peak in his relationship with Jesus, since that's usually what Christian bands like Switchfoot sing about....full text |
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| PasteMagazine |
| Switchfoot’s sixth record, Oh! Gravity, finds the band wrestling with a pervasive sense of dissatisfaction, hauling in the usual culprits—faith, love and modern American life. From this psychic angst bursts an album that poses more questions than it answers, packed with restless dreamers and lovers spinning in endless circles. “American Dream” may come closest to some kind of solution, offering, “When success is equated with excess, the ambition for excess wrecks us,” and later proclaiming, “This ain’t my American dream....full text |
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| Sputnikmusic.com |
| One band that I’ve always enjoyed in mainstream rock ever since their breathtakingly catchy single Meant to Live is Switchfoot. They themselves have never done anything too innovative, but they have a fantastic sound and great messages. Their style and beliefs are a break from the depressing, cliché relationship-based songs of today. But I'm not exactly sure why I decided to pick up Oh! Gravity....full text |
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