Album Of The Day: Native Tongue by Switchfoot

Album Art of Switchfoot's Native Tongue album - On a gray background with some black and white noise like an old TV set, the shoulders and head of a woman in black and white is visible from the bottom. Just above their mouth, the rest of their head is flattened and stretched off to the right of the picture so you can't really see their eyes, hair or nose, just a curved compressed swoosh off the visible area. In the gray space above where their head would have been is the band's name in smaller white text, and below that in large yellow text is the album title on two lines, with the 'n' characters in both words connected together.

Released 7 years ago last week, this is the eleventh album from Switchfoot, a band I first saw play live in 1999 and have seen play live at least a dozen times more since then. On this 14-track album, there's a song or two (if not more) for each Switchfoot fan, I think. "Let It Happen" and "Take My Fire" really bring the rock from this experienced band. "Joy invincible", "Wonderful Feeling" and "All I Need" are good songs that that can make Christian feel like the band is speaking to them. But I really like the songs where the band experiments musically and calls us lyrically to think about the deeper things in life. The title track encourages us to speak in love, our native tongue, and not just use the words others taught us to say. "Voices" also challenges us to silence all the advertising, social media, and other voices and listen to the voices that count. "Dig New Streams" is an excellent song that first sounds like a slow song but then suddenly changes into a rock song and even morphs a few more times, while also challenging us to try something new. And "Prodigal Soul" is a plea to God for help that I identify with a lot. This isn't Switchfoot's best album, in my opinion, but it's still a quality set of songs from this longtime band. I'm looking forward to hopefully a new album from Switchfoot in 2026!

Release Year: 2019
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