Switchfoot:Hello Hurricane
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After a 3 year hiatus, Switchfoot has returned with their most ambitious collection yet. At 12 tracks long, Hello Hurricane returns to what Jon, Tim, Chad, Jerome, and Drew do best…. produce music with an amazing sound and lyrics that stay with you as you listen. Their first album since their split with Columbia records, the writing process for this album actually produced over 80 songs that will be released over the next several years. Beginning with Needle and Haystack Life and ending with Red Eyes, each song flows effortlessly into the next and seems to be perfectly laid into place.
A song that Jon says “makes me think of an abundant, overflowing life.”, Needle and Haystack Life is all about the little miracles and fleeting moments that make up life and then taking advantage of them because “We are once in a lifetime”. The second track, Mess of Me, has been used extensively, including in the trailer for the new indie teen film, To Save A Life. All about how our biggest problem is us, Mess is about reversing course about “living”.
Described as the coming and going of the “hurricane”, the first half of the album builds with the aforementioned tracks, as well as Your Love Is A Song, a song about the beauty in our world that is often surrounded by much ugliness and hatred, and Free, about a man pleading to be set free from the chains of his life.
Beginning with the title track, Hello Hurricane, the storm has arrived, and HH is a song of defiance that proves that love is the best response to the storms of life. As the storm subsides, Sing It Out is a cry for new “breath in my lungs”. Perhaps my favorite track on the album, and certainly one of the most emotional on the album, Sing is a powerful song.
One of the few albums of the past several years that has beckoned me to listen all the way through every time I play it, its hard to believe that Hello Hurricane is only the first 12 tracks of an 80 track period of writing. The future continues to remain bright for these Southern California boys, and I can’t wait for whats next.
10/10
Review by Wes Brawner of RockTheCross.net
