Learning to Breathe (CD - 2000)

Switchfoot: Jon Foreman (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Tim Foreman (keyboards, bass, background vocals); Chad Butler (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel includes: Tony Miracle, Kip Kuban (synthesizer); Vicki Hampton, Darwin Hobbs (background vocals).

Producers include: Charlie Peacock, Jacquire King, Switchfoot.

Engineers include: Shane D. Wilson, Richie Biggs, Jon Foreman.

Digitally remastered using HDCD technology.

LEARNING TO BREATHE was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album.

This is a Hyper CD, which contains regular audio tracks and also provides a link to the artist's website with the help of a web browser.

Personnel: Tim Foreman (vocals, keyboards); Tony Miracle (synthesizer); Chad Butler (drums, percussion); Darwin Hobbs, Vicki Hampton (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: Dan Leffler; Jacquire King .

Recording information: Charlie Peacock Productions; Dos Enanos Studio; Jacquire's Hotel Room; Jon's Bedroom; Monofi Lab; The White House.

Photographer: Marina Chavez.

Learning to Breathe, Switchfoot's third album, continues the band's welcome lack of religious didacticism, instead expressing its spiritual concerns in more universal terms. Don't think that Switchfoot ought to be more dogmatic to avoid compromising their beliefs, though; every song here is firmly rooted in Christian faith and philosophy, as well as (musically speaking) mainstream post-grunge alternative rock. It's refreshing (and more compelling) to hear a band still searching for the answers instead of claiming to have them already. ~ Steve Huey minimize