Sounds like...accessible and anthemic pop/rock with shades of Weezer, Smashing Pumkins, Foo Fighters, Sanctus Real, and Mea.
At a glance...though The Best Yet is missing a number of Switchfoot's key tracks, it's still a reasonable overview of the band's work and an excellent collection overall.
After a decade of intellect, integrity and songs that lift the soul and open the eyes, Switchfoot have earned the right to wave their accomplishments about a bit.
The Best Yet does just that - and more.
With five albums behind them and a stack of accolades and awards. Switchfoot have had plenty of best bits to choose from. What the band have settle on are eighteen songs that highlight perfectly why it is that these five guys from San Diego have moved in and settled down in the hearts and minds of millions of fans across the globe. The expected hits are here, such as "Meant to Live," "Dare You to Move," "Stars," "Awakening," "Oh! Gravity," and "Learning to Breathe." But the album also includes several lesser-known favorites - not just recent gems like "Dirty Second Hands" and "The Shadow Proves the Sunshine," but classics spanning the band's early years like "Love Is the Movement," "Only Hope," "Company Car," and even "Concrete Girl." Frankly, it'd be disappointing if a Switchfoot anthology didn't include some of these earlier cuts.
Click here for Switchfoot's The Best Yet CD
Then there's the deluxe edition of the album, a CD/DVD package featuring 14 music videos and band commentary. Includes video favorites like "Stars," "Dare You To Move," and "Meant To Live" along with some rarities spanning Switchfoots career.
While it might be tempting to point to the band's mainstream chart success as a cause of their even wider appeal, it works better if you look at it as a symptom. The reality is that for Switchfoot, there greatest asset is their ability to articulate the sounds and sense of a generation.
Theirs is an organic, ground up type of success, the sort that no amount of marketing or PR could ever emulate. Switchfoot are sung all over the world because their songs connect perfectly with their audience.
There's only on real problem with Switchfoot's "The Best Yet". It's the knowledge that there's way, way more to come.
And that's just my point.
At a glance...though The Best Yet is missing a number of Switchfoot's key tracks, it's still a reasonable overview of the band's work and an excellent collection overall.
After a decade of intellect, integrity and songs that lift the soul and open the eyes, Switchfoot have earned the right to wave their accomplishments about a bit.
The Best Yet does just that - and more.
With five albums behind them and a stack of accolades and awards. Switchfoot have had plenty of best bits to choose from. What the band have settle on are eighteen songs that highlight perfectly why it is that these five guys from San Diego have moved in and settled down in the hearts and minds of millions of fans across the globe. The expected hits are here, such as "Meant to Live," "Dare You to Move," "Stars," "Awakening," "Oh! Gravity," and "Learning to Breathe." But the album also includes several lesser-known favorites - not just recent gems like "Dirty Second Hands" and "The Shadow Proves the Sunshine," but classics spanning the band's early years like "Love Is the Movement," "Only Hope," "Company Car," and even "Concrete Girl." Frankly, it'd be disappointing if a Switchfoot anthology didn't include some of these earlier cuts.
Click here for Switchfoot's The Best Yet CD
Then there's the deluxe edition of the album, a CD/DVD package featuring 14 music videos and band commentary. Includes video favorites like "Stars," "Dare You To Move," and "Meant To Live" along with some rarities spanning Switchfoots career.
While it might be tempting to point to the band's mainstream chart success as a cause of their even wider appeal, it works better if you look at it as a symptom. The reality is that for Switchfoot, there greatest asset is their ability to articulate the sounds and sense of a generation.
Theirs is an organic, ground up type of success, the sort that no amount of marketing or PR could ever emulate. Switchfoot are sung all over the world because their songs connect perfectly with their audience.
There's only on real problem with Switchfoot's "The Best Yet". It's the knowledge that there's way, way more to come.
And that's just my point.
