GRAMMY Award-winning rock band, Switchfoot, confirmed their new album, interrobang, will be released on August 20, 2021 via Fantasy Records. interrobang is the follow up to 2018’s Native Tongue, and last year’s Covers EP. The band also shared the sparkling new track, fluorescent, the second song from interrobang, following the recently release, i need you (to be wrong).
Brimming with child-like imagination and a futuristic mindset, Switchfoot reaches a bold new creative peak on interrobang, the 12th full-length album of the multi-platinum selling rock band’s 20+ year career. Working with producer, Tony Berg (Paul McCartney, Phoebe Bridgers, Andrew Bird) at both Sound City studio in Van Nuys, CA and the band’s own studio in Carlsbad, CA, Switchfoot: Jon Foreman, Tim Foreman, Chad Butler, Jerome Fontamillas, and Drew Shirley recorded the album in a burst of pent-up mid-pandemic creativity throughout last year and into 2021. Fearlessly marrying 60’s experimentalism and synth-driven new wave swagger, the band pushed past its comfort zones and retooled its sound.
“More than ever, we want our music to be a bridge, reaching out with melody and lyrics to sing an honest song for anyone who’s got ears to hear,” says Switchfoot frontman, Jon Foreman. “interrobang is an album that celebrates the journey, even when the arrival is unsure. interrobang is the sound of joy and pain, faith and doubt against the backdrop of the strangest, most difficult year we’ve ever experienced.”
An absorbing series of sharply drawn short stories underscored by a dizzying array of textures both vintage and modern, interrobang’s themes of alienation and self-reflection are amplified by the record’s inventive use of density and dynamics. Credit veteran mixer Tchad Blake (Arctic Monkeys, Fiona Apple) with aiding the album’s three-dimensional sound.
Interro is derived from “interrogation point,” the technical name for the question mark, and bang is printers’ slang for the exclamation point. Seeking freedom from the broken promises and failed expectations of 21st century America, on interrobang Switchfoot takes the listener on a twisty, surprising technicolour ride, all the while asking hard questions with eyes wide open.
Tomorrow, June 19, Switchfoot will virtually host their 17th Annual BRO-AM with a livestream concert and fundraiser. The event will begin at 5 p.m. PT and feature performances from Switchfoot, Phantom Planet, Andrew McMahon, Madison Cunningham and more. More information here.
Recently, Switchfoot announced they will join longtime friends, NEEDTOBREATHE, on their Fall 2021 Into the Mystery Tour, long with rising indie-pop group, The New Respects. The 37-city run kicks off on September 7 in St. Louis, MO and will hit major markets across the U.S. including Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, CO, The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, and Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN. For tickets and more information, visit www.switchfoot.com.
interrobang Tracklist:
1.beloved
2.lost ‘cause
3.fluorescent
4.if i were you
5.the bones of us
6.splinter
7.i need you (to be wrong)
8.the hard way
9.wolves
10. backwards in time
11.electricity
