Album Of The Day: Learning To Breathe by Switchfoot

Album Art of Switchfoot's Learning To Breathe album - On a somewhat pastel blue background with a hint of purple hue, an graphic of three stick figures with just one short arm each. Their heads are squares and look kinda like TVs, each with the same dot pattern on them. Behind them, in the background, is the outline of a TV screen with the dot pattern as well. The TVs have a white screen and 15 dots, all grouped together, with one near the middle colored red and the rest are black. At the top, the band's name is printed in large red, block-y font with a hairline thin black edge, and then the album title is in smaller letters below the band's name.

Released 25 years ago last month, this is the third album from Switchfoot, and though it's a quick 43 minutes, it's one of my favorite albums from them. Around this time, the band was still a three-piece officially, but the band started to have extra people on tour to fill out their sound. On this album, it's still very simple guitar, vocals, drums and bass on most songs. "I Dare You To Move" became a worldwide hit when it was re-recorded for their fourth album, but it first showed up here as the opening track. "Learning To Breathe" is another solid song about personal growth. "Poparazzi" and "The Loser" are really fun ones too. One of my all-time favorite Switchfoot songs is "Love Is The Movement", an excellent reminder that the most radical thing we can do is love others, plus the song has a bit of a Gospel flair and epic-ness to it. Speaking of epic, the closer "Living Is Simple" reminds us of the joys of life. Switchfoot has grown and expanded their sonic palette over the last 25 years, but I still love these early days as a bit more of a scrappy little rock band.

Release Year: 2000
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