Album Of The Day: The Wonderlands: Dawn by Jon Foreman

Dawn EP - On what looks like rough, light brown paper with a coffee cup stain in the top right, there is a photo of a light blue sky with a with some potential clouds over a somewhat calm, wide body of light brown water. On the bottom edge, the image is worn out a bit, and there's a piece of clear tape on the bottom left of the image, affixing it to the paper. Above it, in the middle, it says 'The Wonderlands' in a smaller, light gray font, and 'Dawn' in a much larger black text. Below the photo, there's a handwritten, thin pen signature of Jon Foreman. There's also a thick black border around it.

Released 11 years ago this past Friday, this is the eighth EP from Jon Foreman, the lead singer of long-time rock band Switchfoot. In 2015, he released 4 EPs in The Wonderlands series, each of the 25 songs written about a certain time of day, to some extent. This EP has 6 songs from 5am to 10am and each song is co-produced with a different Producer. Guests abound on this EP, not just Producers. There are vocals from Kanene Pipkin (The Lone Bellow) on the opening track and Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek) playing fiddle on the closing track. And "Mercy's War" has Jeff Coffin playing clarinet, I think, as well as a full Gospel choir. Like the rest of these EPs in this series, the music is beautifully arranged and more acoustic pop than rock, usually. A year or two later, after releasing 25 songs on 4 EPs, Jon Foreman decided to perform 25 short concerts in 24 hours in his hometown of San Diego, and you can find bits of him playing these songs, Switchfoot songs and more in a documentary by the name 25 in 24, which is mostly about his experience completing this feat and him driving his VW bus around town between these gigs. Jon Foreman is such an experienced songwriter and I'm really glad he records more songs than just what Switchfoot wants to perform.

Release Year: 2015
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