Summer is here! We posted Foreman's Spring EP a few months back with great expectations for Summer, the fourth and final installment of Jon Foreman's quad-EP year. In my opinion, this album does not disappoint.Musically, Summer picks up where the other EPs left off with a nice assortment of instrumentation and arrangements somewhat different that what we are used to hearing with Foreman's everyday band, Switchfoot. The string arrangements are present, as are some less than typical instruments like dulcimer and sitar.
Lyrically, this has become my favorite of the EPs. "House of God, Forever" is probably the strongest track on the album. This duet with Sarah Masen (Foreman's sis in law) is absolutely beautiful.
The track "Again" is a perfect ending to the series both musically and in verse. It's refreshing to listen to a commercially successful artist like Foreman churn out such intimate, spiritually-charged songs. That can be a risk, and it's a risk I'm glad he has taken. I hope he takes the time to do some more albums of this nature in the future.
And once again, Jon, I'm sorry that I thought your band sucked so bad back in 1997. May you accept the multiple endorsements of your current music as my apology. And I accept the greatness of your current music as your apology for sucking so bad back then.
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Yeah, I really dig his solo stuff over most of the Switchfoot material. It's probably just a personal preferance thing though. All 4 of the EP's are worthy collections. This one I like a lot, but I think Spring is still my favorite.
ReplyDeleteDave, the last paragraph of your review makes me chuckle :)
This guy reminds me a lot of David Ford. Motorola is actually giving away the "To Hell with the World" ringtone for free in The Hotel Cafe if you want to make a comparison. There's five other artists on there too.
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