Artist Switchfoot Product The Early Years

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> Artist: Switchfoot
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  Product: The Early Years
  Label: Fierce! Distribution
  Release date: 16th April 2005
  Product Code: RTD74565

  Switchfoot’s Next Step: The Early Years
  If anyone ever gets round to writing a textbook titled ‘How To Plug Your Faith Into The World Music
  Scene’ the chapter on Switchfoot will be big. The four surfer-boys from San Diego, California have re-
  written many of the rules that previously bound up expectations of what Christians could and couldn’t
  do with a heart full of rocking tunes and a head heaven-bent on Godly-abandon. They inspired the
  Christian scene and have spent much of the last couple of years wooing – yes, wooing – the
  mainstream with their quality tunes, quality values and quality, um, wooing.

  The result? The band’s stock is currently soaring, helped by the fact that the February 2005 issue of Q
  Magazine, tipped Switchfoot for one of the breakthrough acts for 2005 in the UK / Europe. According
  to the magazine, the boys have ‘got hooks by the truckload’. Too true, my friend, too true. And with
  March 14th lined up as d-day for the mainstream release of the stunning album ‘The Beautiful
  Letdown’, the trucks are about to unload.

  Having been in the Billboard top 50 for the past 8 months, the sales are a clear reflection of how
  potent the band are live. Since the release of ‘The Beautiful Letdown’ they’ve notched up 300
  performances worldwide, mostly sold out, in front of over 1.25 million fans. Oh yes, then there was
  that business of getting pole position on the Spiderman 2 film soundtrack.

  So, while the chaps are currently in the studio working on a follow-up to the double platinum album
  ‘The Beautiful Letdown’, there’s finally room for a pause, a little time to reflect on what it is that’s got
  them here. In the closing dusk of the last millennium, the band released a triple cocktail of albums
  that set them apart from the rest. Premium garage band energy mixed with quirky double-takes and
  gut-tugging insight in three classic albums: The Legend Of Chin (1997), New Way To Be Human (1999)
  and Learning To Breathe (2000).

  The 32-song collection includes favorites like the debut single ‘Chem 6A’, ‘You Already Take Me There’,
  and the original recording of the band's current mainstream hit ‘Dare You To Move’.

  These were the bedrock on which a colossal career has been built. And, because the good folks at EMI
  believe that it’s good to share, Fierce are proud to announce the release of The Early Years (1997-
  2000), a complete, uncut and fully-original collection of these three albums. Complete with all the
  original artwork and liner notes, this is not so much a Best Of but more of a Best Deal Ever, as the
  three albums in their special packaging will be winging their way out of the shops for a ridiculous £15.

  For more info or promotional material contact Steve Hancock on steve@fiercedistribution.com
  or +44 (0) 1243 558 444

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