Album Of The Day: The Legend Of Chin by Switchfoot

Album Art of Switchfoot's The Legend Of Chin album - The cover's background is a bunch of rectangles of various shades of white black, yellow-gold, orange and brown. The top quarter is mostly yellow-gold background with the word 'Switch-' in black. In the top right is a photo of a person who has glasses on and his tongue stuck out, and almost everything including his glasses and his tongue has a sticky note on it. The next quarter is extra tall, but the left half is a bright orange, and the right a light brown with 'Foot', the rest of the band's name, in black uppercase letters. On the third quarter which is also taller than normal, the left bit is black, while the majority is white and has the album title in orange, brown and black in smaller, thin letters. The last little bit is solid orange.

Released 28 years ago today, this is the first album from one of my favorite bands of all time, Switchfoot. Honestly, this is not in my top Switchfoot albums, but it's still a very good debut album. It has more of an indie-rock, garage rock or even punk vibe than most of their other albums, though many of the slower songs are in the pop-rock genre still. Like many albums from Switchfoot and lead singer-songwriter Jon Foreman's solo work, the songs wrestle with the meaning of life and striving to be the the best man he can be. Maybe it's the rawness of the three-piece band that makes this sound a bit different, because they have to keep it fairly basic with just guitars, bass, drums and vocals. On later albums/tours the band added more members for a more nuanced sound. Still, even if it's not their best work, it's some good songs and the band's potential to make engaging music that asks the big questions and challenges the listener is clearly visible. Jon is one of the best songwriters in my opinion, and this is the earliest available documentation of this fact.

Release Year: 1997
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