It was a year ago that American rockers released their brilliant album 'Native Tongue', to celebrate this fact the band have now released a remix EP. 'Native Tongue: Reimagine / Remix EP' includes three remixes as well as their recent collaboration with violinist Lindsey Stirling.
The modern musical world we live in, and how we consume music, pushes bands to keep releasing more and more music, even after they have released a massive and successful album (it’s all about them streaming figures). Thankfully, compared to maybe 10 years ago, bands can upload content to these streaming sites with so much ease.... Read More It was a year ago that American rockers released their brilliant album 'Native Tongue', to celebrate this fact the band have now released a remix EP. 'Native Tongue: Reimagine / Remix EP' includes three remixes as well as their recent collaboration with violinist Lindsey Stirling.
The modern musical world we live in, and how we consume music, pushes bands to keep releasing more and more music, even after they have released a massive and successful album (it’s all about them streaming figures). Thankfully, compared to maybe 10 years ago, bands can upload content to these streaming sites with so much ease. What you find is you have more content from artists, and as fans that can be great, but as a band/artist that might not be so good as you have to keep pushing more content, and actually be more creative. As said, sometimes the results are good but sometimes they can be bad. But again that's a whole different blog article.
Switchfoot have always tried to be ahead of the times in comparisons to other bands in trying new and creative stuff, be it with releases of podcast, vlogs, special downloads, remixes, live recordings etc. Now we have their latest offering with some reimagined versions of their tracks from their latest album ‘Native Tongue’.
I love these songs, the album versions are of course something special, but these new versions per say are also fantastic, different, but fantastic. The song 'Voices' has a classical feel to it with all the orchestral instruments, and 'Wonderful Feeling' really sounds lovely. What I enjoyed and appreciated so much was that the songs didn’t lose their core meaning, and even feeling they are just different, without actually being too different, in my opinion.
The band have not just gone wild and rerecorded these few songs from the album as metal or reggae Jazz versions (although I'm sure that style would still work!), this is still Switchfoot as we know them - just them trying a few little different creative things - and in the main it works really well.
Albert Einstein once said, "Creativity is contagious, pass it on". Let’s all be a little bit more creative.
Review by Jono Davies
LTTM Rating 5 Out of 5 Stars Standout Tracks Wonderful Feeling
Voices
Native Tongue
