Switchfoot's albums are in many ways their babies, and they're treating their next one with extra-special care, notes MTV.com. As a daycare center might say, they boast an impressive 5-to-1 ratio.
"We're all cutting [tracks] at the same time in a room, just five guys playing rock and roll," singer Jon Foreman said. "We definitely have a lot more work ahead of us, but it's taking shape real nicely."
Foreman is the kind of songwriter who's always working, so the band entered its San Diego studio with some 50 ideas to navigate through for the follow-up to 2005's Nothing Is Sound. So far, Switchfoot have been working alone, but last week the band brought in producer
Tim Palmer (U2, Pearl Jam).
"It felt like a good fit," Foreman said. "We've been a band for so long you want someone who can take it to the next level and get you across waters that you wouldn't be able to swim across yourself. We can only get it so far."
It's too early for Foreman to describe the music, but he says the band's been open to more experimenting. "We've always tried to listen to a song with an open mind and not dive into it thinking we have to paint every song blue or green or red," Foreman explained. "We're making sure every song has its own color and feel."
Switchfoot are shooting for a late 2006 release date. Read more at MTV.com.
