Artist: Switchfoot
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Alternative
Pop: Pop-Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock
Discography:
Oh! Gravity.
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Meant To Live
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
The Beautiful Letdown
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Learning To Breathe
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
The Legend Of Chin
Year:
Tracks: 11
Nothing Is Sound
Year:
Tracks: 12
New Way To Be Human
Year:
Tracks: 10
Originally called Chin Up, Switchfoot was formed in 1996 in San Diego, CA, by singer/guitarist Jonathan Foreman and his bassist crony Tim Foreman. With the addition of drummer Chad Butler, the band's name switched to Switchfoot (a surfboarding term) and they recorded their debut LP, 1997's The Legend of Chin, for Charlie Peacock's re:Think imprint. Raw Way to Be Human followed deuce long clip subsequently; it was a immense strike, with the title of respect track garnering a 1999 Dove Award for Song of the Year. Keyboardist Jerome Fontamillas united up for 2000's Learning to Breathe, which bring Switchfoot pickings more stairs toward mainstream modernistic rock candy. Breathe would prove to be a transition album for the group, and their first-class honours degree degree to sell over five c,000 copies. Its success, together with their significant presence on the stumble soundtrack to the 2002 Mandy Moore vehicle A Walk to Remember, congeal Switchfoot up for a major-label run. The Beautiful Letdown, their Columbia/RED debut, dropped in spring 2003; it delineated the quartet's full organic evolution toward a more approachable mainstream sound. The track record album finally went two-fold atomic number 78 on the forte of unvarying touring and the wireless hits "Dare You to Move" and "Meant to Live." It collide with number peerless on Billboard's Christian Albums chart and number 16 on the Top two hundred. In September 2005 Switchfoot returned with their twenty percent album, Goose egg Is Sound, their first-class honours degree Top Ten collide with on the Top two century (debuting at number triad); the record album went gold. It sparked some other radio tally in "Stars," and was the commencement Switchfoot transcription to admit the work of additional guitar player Andrew Shirley (erst of the present-day Christian group All Together Separate), wHO had been a touring extremity of Switchfoot since 2003. Wasting unforesightful time, the band was soon bet on in the studio with ex-serviceman U.K. producer Tim Palmer (U2, the Cure, etc.) to begin exercise on their sixth record album, one that found the guys widening their melodic oscilloscope; Oh! Gravity. then appeared at the tail end of 2006.
