Album Of The Day: Nothing Is Sound by Switchfoot

Album Art of Switchfoot's Nothing Is Sound album - At the top, on the right is a sun, a yellow circle, surrounded by clouds. Rays of light spread across the sky from the sun. In the middle is the outline of a tree in black, and the ground is also black and rises slightly up to the tree and separates the cover in half horizontally. Below the ground, a brownish page of paper seems to represent the soil and the outline of roots are emanating from below the tree in black. In black in the sky is the band's name, and below that in a hand-written blood red color is the album title.

"The shadow proves the sunshine." In 2003, Switchfoot's career went into overdrive as their album The Beautiful Letdown found them playing to bigger audiences and selling way more albums than before. Many expected them to follow up this album with another set of positive rock anthems, but Switchfoot was not interested in delivering that. Released on this day 20 years ago, this still delivered on the rock album, but it was darker and more brooding than any Switchfoot album before. Songs like "Nothing Is Sound", "The Blues" and "The Fatal Wound" find the band lyrically struggling with the day to day of life and their purpose. But they also find hope in their fellow man and a higher power in songs like "We Are One Tonight", "Stars" and "Daisy". I also love their calling out some of the world's problems in tracks such as "Lonely Nation" and "Politicians". This album is definitely not what I expected when this was released, but it's a favorite of many Switchfoot fans and has become more beloved to me over time.

Release Year: 2005
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