Switchfoot - Afterlife [NEW Album 2011]

On September 27th, Credential Recordings/lowercase people and Atlantic Records will release Vice Verses, the eighth studio record from multi-platinum rock band Switchfoot. Working with producer Neal Avron (Weezer, Linkin Park), the band recorded most of the album in their San Diego, CA home studio. Mike Elizondo (Eminem, Regina Spektor) who pro

duced Switchfoot's GRAMMY-winning album, Hello Hurricane, served as executive producer. Released in 2009, Hello Hurricane entered The Billboard 200 at No. 13 and contained the Modern Rock hits "The Sound (John M. Perkins' Blues)" and "Mess of Me."

"Vice Verses is a record of tension and release. It's an attempt to describe the polarity of the human experience. The sunlight and shadow. The highs and lows, laughter and pain, hope and fear, doubts and belief," says lead

singer/guitarist Jon Foreman. In the title track, he writes, "...'Every blessing comes with a set of curses. I

got my vices. I got my vice verses.' So we live in the tension -- pulled and stretched thin. Vice Verses is soul music --attempting to get to the heart of the human experience: Living in the tension and turning it into song..."

Vice Verses is the work of a band that is so restless, they devote an entire song ("Restless") to the condition. It's that very uneasiness -- an unwillingness to choose the treadmill over the triathlon -- that fuels the band's forays into new musical territory and Jon Foreman's unflinchingly honest lyrics. You can hear the tension build along with the first chords of album opener "Afterlife," leading into a bold statement of intent: "...I've tasted fire I'm ready to come alive/I can't just shut it up and fake that I'm alright/I'm ready now/I'm not waiting for the afterlife....I believe we start forever now...."

Songs like "Afterlife" and "The War Inside" take the harder-edged approach of Hello Hurricane a step further, creating what Billboard has called "powerful, anthemic rockers...like an amalgamation of U2's 'Achtung Baby,' Linkin Park." Overall, Vice Verses is a more eclectic collection than its predecessor with quiet gems like "Souvenirs" and the title track next to the infectious "The Original," reminiscent of Foo Fighters, and the biting, largely spoken-word "Selling the News." The latter is a poetry slam Beck-meets-Beastie Boys style examination of a media-mad nation: "...America listens the story is told/the hard sell, all caps, all bold...begging the question mongering fears/stroking the eye and tickling ears/the truth ain't just what it appears/we're selling the news..."

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[SnowyLeopardStudios]

Im ready to come alive...are you?

[RifleboytheLPfan]

Linkin Park brought me here :P Not bad at all, guys.

[60akingskid]

I cannot wait to live forever!!!!! :O) Awesome song !!!! Come Alive :O)

[Lovely9701]

I like this song!!! I like Switchfoot!!!

[AltarAngel25]

@Datsyuk132011 They play this during the game promos in the intermission too =)

[sniper3boy502]

Switch-Foot Is The Best 4 Ever

[patterson561]

Love this song

[CSFLChampion]

Go Ducks!

[gyasicockrell]

@Ritz13Ragnork dude stop cussin bout the #1 chisrtan roc band on the world if u don't like the muis don't listen to it

[Ritz13Ragnarok]

seriously those 4 motherf*#kers are gonna die dreadfully.

Switchfoot ...........

......Marry me please

[kanata158]

4 people aren't going to make it to the afterlife :I