★★★★★
Artist: Switchfoot Title: Fading West Label: Atlantic Records Release Date: 1/14/14 Reviewer: Ian Zandi Tracklisting: Back in September of last year, we got our first glimpse of Switchfoot's Fading West project from their 3-track EP. After being delayed a few times, the part-soundtrack, part-studio album is finally here. In the past, we have mostly been treated to gritty grunge tracks from the band. Those tracks have become major hits in both Christian and mainstream radio...
- www.indievisionmusic.com
2014-01-23
★★★★★
Reviewed by Joshua Andre Switchfoot- Fading West (Amazon mp3/iTunes) "...as a band that has been together this long, making a ninth record is such a rare thing, but I think that looking for inspiration and looking for hope and purpose and new ways to communicate is something that I hope inspires other people to do that in their own life, regardless of whether they surf or play music..."...
- christianmusiczine.com
2014-01-20
★★★★★
Switchfoot- Fading West (iTunes/fadingwest.com) "...We all love to surf and have been surfing all our lives so to us, the name made sense. To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music...". As lead singer Jon Foreman explains how the band name of Switchfoot came to be, I am left reflecting and pondering over the collection and anthology of songs that have been recorded by the five men...
- christianmusiczine.com
2014-01-15
★★★★★
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Switchfoot - Fading WestSwitchfoot - Fading WestRelease Date: January 14, 2014
Record Label: lowercase people/Atlantic
2004 was a weird year for breakthrough radio singles. If you look at the charts from that year, things don't seem so out of the ordinary: the top two singles on the Billboard Hot 100 were both from Usher's world-beating Confessions album ("Yeah" and "Burn," respectively), with the...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2014-01-16
★★★★★
Switchfoot's Fading West doubles as the soundtrack to the San Diego alt-rock outfit's identically titled documentary, which charts the band's globe-trotting surfing exploits, which at least partly explains the album's marked departure from the guitar-led stadium rock of their previous efforts. The album instead opts for chill synthesizers and buzzy basslines, an attempt at the kind of summery radio pop the retro-cool kids are making these days...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2014-01-16
★★★★★
Buy 'Fading West' at: The ninth installment in the Switchfoot story 'Fading West' has arrived. Not many bands can keep producing high quality albums, but Switchfoot seem to. It feels like they have been around for years and yet still they keep sounding new and fresh with every release. This album is no different...
- www.louderthanthemusic.com
2014-01-14
★★★★★
Criticizing San Diego CCM stars Switchfoot for releasing another album of polished, lyrically/spiritually uplifting modern pop is like lambasting Chuck Berry for playing rock and roll; it's just what they do. So it's no surprise that the Grammy winning, platinum selling act's ninth effort, a soundtrack of sorts to an identically titled documentary on the group and their love of surfing, hews closely to what is now an established formula...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-01-14
★★★★★
2004 was a weird year for breakthrough radio singles. If you look at the charts from that year, things don't seem so out of the ordinary: the top two singles on the Billboard Hot 100 were both from Usher's world-beating Confessions album ("Yeah" and "Burn," respectively), with the rest of the top five rounded out by Alicia Keys, Maroon 5, and Outkast. Not such a different spread from the charts of either the previous year or the year that followed...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-01-14
★★★★★
Switchfoot truly is a force to be reckoned with. Album after album they give listeners quality music but with their latest release, Fading West, they're stirring up the pot. Many who think they know the boys from San Diego will be surprised - pleasantly surprised. Regardless, this ain't the Switchfoot you've heard before. The album opens with the already introduced, via the Fading West EP, "Love Alone Is Worth the Fight...
- www.jesusfreakhideout.com
2014-02-01