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Switchfoot
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BIO
What is true happiness? asks Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman. Is it a comfortable four-door sedan with tinted windows? Does it mean I have 2.3 children and a beautiful wife and live in a great neighborhood? Everyone has their own version of what happiness means, but many of the things were going for, and I include myself in this, are absurd. Theres this moment in Jewish scripture, in Ecclesiastes, where it says, Meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless. Thats the place where our new record starts.
The San Diego alt-rock bands new record, Nothing is Sound, once again finds Foreman questioning everything, as he did on the bands two and a half-million selling breakout album The Beautiful Letdown. Thats pretty much where our music naturally goes, he says. I ask myself questions and sing about it. A lot of these songs are like an oyster. A bit of sand gets in and its abrasive and troublesome. The oyster starts working on it and a few years later you open it up and theres pearl in there. Thats what I do in my songschew on the more abrasive parts of my life.
Switchfoots non-stop touring schedulethey performed 400 shows over the last two yearsgave Foreman plenty of time to gnaw. In fact, Nothing is Sound was recorded on the road. The band was so busy that they didnt have time to take a break to make a record. So they set up their instruments and recording equipment in the dressing room every night and would lay down tracks in between interviews and soundcheck.
That was one advantage we had on this record, says Foreman. Wed been playing some of the songs, like Daisy and Politicians, off and on for a while. We got to road test them, check the tires, and switch things up before we ever pressed the record button. The audiences determined which songs were selected and how they turned out. The trickiest part is trying to capture what we do live and bottle it up into the 1s and 0s on a CD. It helped to play these songs live, feel that energy, and say, Okay, this is what we have to match.
