Hello Hurricane Switchfoot CD

Latest album fro Switchfoot - one of leading bands at 2010 parachute festival

"Hello Hurricane acknowledges the storms that tear through our lives," states Switchfoot singer and songwriter Jon Foreman. "This album is an attempt to respond to those storms with an element of hope, trying to understand what it means to be hopeful in a world that keeps on spinning."

With Hello Hurricane, Switchfoot return to thjeir roots of creativity and sense of purpose.


The album's driving and urgent 'Mess of Me' ? with its personal declaration of independence, as Foreman passionately announces to the world that "I wanna spend the rest of my life alive!" ? powerfully demonstrates the edge behind the new tones. Not content to settle into a single groove, the band moves from the high flying album opener, 'Needle and Haystack Life', to songs like the stirring 'Always Yours' and the sweetly soaring 'Your Love is a Song', which ? by its very nature ? cries out for many waving hands illuminated by a blue cell phone glow.

The anthemic, riff fuelled 'This is the Sound', with its utterly timely generational themes, finds Foreman spitting, "This is the sound from the discontented mouths of a haunted nation!" The 'Hello Hurricane' title track is even more poignant when it comes to the band's perspective on themselves and the world around them. "I'm not talking about 'Rock You Like a Hurricane'," says Foreman with a wink before turning reflective. "There is a real despair that I see when we travel around the country and it's music that people turn to in a time like this. I wanted to reach out to those people with song."

Song Title Time

1. Needle And Haystack Life 3:46
2. Mess Of Me 3:28
3. Your Love Is A Song 4:20
4. The Sound [John M. Perkins' Blues] 3:47
5. Enough To Let Me Go 3:52
6. Free 4:02
7. Hello Hurricane 4:04
8. Always 4:19
9. Bullet Soul 3:24
10. Yet 3:53
11. Sing It Out 5:17
12. Red Eyes 4:49