Old Enough to Forget

Switchfoot is a band I've been long curious about. I know they have a tenuous connection to the Christian music machine and that at one time they were a pretty big deal. Heck, their 2000 release Learning to Breathe went gold when they were on Sparrow Records*, a smaller imprint without the benefit of corporate muscle outside the weird Christian bookstore model. Their next album, The Beautiful Letdown , was distributed to the great unwashed outside of the CCM bubble by SONY BMG back in 2003, and the band went triple platinum. Kind of a holy shit moment for them, I'm sure. A couple of years after that, Nothing Is Sound would be their highest-charting album on the Billboard 200, reaching #3, but the album would only go gold ... only , sheesh, most acts would love a gold record. As time went on, each album would sell fewer copies than the one before. They'd change labels a few times, and in 2021 interrobang would be their second album on Fantasy Records. I wonder if they ask...