Switchfoot has announced its new studio album, Forever Now, set for release June 26.
The project marks the band’s first full-length collection of new music in five years and follows the recent re-release of its 2003 album The Beautiful Letdown.
The band revealed the album following its set at South by Southwest on Friday, where Switchfoot gave fans an early preview of the new record by performing “Wake Up, Mr. Crow,” the lead single, ahead of its March 27 release.
Ahead of the announcement, frontman Jon Foreman told RELEVANT that Forever Now is built around a central question: “If you knew today was your last, how would you live it? What would you do?”
Foreman said the record is framed by the tension between mortality and presence, and by the ways modern life keeps pulling people out of the moment they’re actually living.
“We’re never promised a tomorrow,” he explained. “We’re only promised today.”
He said people are often drawn away from the present by regret, anxiety or distraction.
“Our mind is tempted to live in the regrets of the past, or the fears and projections of the future,” Foreman said. “We’re tempted to live in other places, through other lives, looking at our phone, watching other versions of existence flow by, distracted from the ever-present reality that’s in front of us.”
That idea helped shape both the album’s title and its creative direction. Foreman said the band wanted to stop chasing trends and instead make something that felt true to who Switchfoot is now.
“We wanted to make the record that Switchfoot alone can make,” he said. “The kind of record that the 14-year-old version of us would flip out about.”
The result is a louder, more guitar-driven record that the band says reconnects with the sound and spirit that first made them fall in love with rock and roll.
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