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| 3.5 great | Eko | September 17th 11 |
about on par with their career as a whole so if you like switchfoot you'll like this and if you don't like switchfoot then you won't like this.
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| 3.5 great | Jacob Clark | June 2nd 16 |
I'm going to be blunt: the first half of Vice Verses is a misfire. After the decent one-two punch of "Afterlife" and "The Original," the album starts to experiment too much with the sound it established early on and goes a little off the rails. Experiments like "The War Inside" and "Selling the News" show that Switchfoot wants to go to even newer places but doesn't know quite how to do so yet. The second half, however, is nearly perfect, with nearly every track from "Thrive" on being a highlight. It's a very coherent set of songs that shows some positive musical evolution with some restrained and polished artistry as well. Vice Verses is definitely one of the good Switchfoot releases. Just make sure you keep listening past track 6.
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| 4.0 excellent | Antialexithymia | November 26th 13 |
I didn't slide the slider far enough to get to excellent, simple as that.
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| 5.0 classic | retrodip | February 3rd 13 |
I seriously don't understand why this album has garnered so many low ratings. It is one of my favorite albums of 2011, if not my top pick. Afterlife, Restless, Dark Horses, Souvenirs, and Where I Belong are the best tracks in my opinion, but the whole thing is great.
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| 4.5 superb | RJDelirious | October 5th 11 |
Great songwriting!! One of Switchfoot's best!
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| 2.0 poor | sneakybeeks | September 28th 11 |
I wrote a review myself and even being a dedicated Switchfoot fan I really don't like this album and agree almost 100% with the original review--except I would call "Selling the News" one of the better tracks on the album, along with "Where I Belong and, to a less extent, "Thrive".rAlso, while I do believe Jon Foreman's writing on this album is really weak compared to Switchfoot's other albums, I think there was a surprising lack of blame placed on producer Neal Avron. I'm still bitter about how he helped ruin Anberlin's New Surrender album and I think he sullied this album as well.rSidenote: while people may not particularly like Hello Hurricane, I do believe that it is Switchfoot's best album as far as flow and direction with, maybe, the exception of "Bullet Soul". Up until that point, I had always thought Nothing Is Sound was the band's best effort.
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| 2.5 average | PTGS | February 2nd 23 |
| 2.5 average | Timmy | January 23rd 23 |
| 3.0 good | camxv | June 6th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Tdunn99 | September 24th 21 |
| 3.5 great | alcnet | August 20th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Sowing STAFF | May 8th 21 |
| 3.0 good | cam15 | March 22nd 19 |
| 3.5 great | JTPlays | September 18th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Lucman | October 23rd 17 |
| 3.5 great | Shamus CONTRIBUTOR | August 9th 16 |
| 2.5 average | yairfg | June 28th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | smz | April 9th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Spigot | February 9th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Xhoven | February 16th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Subho | June 25th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aymax | March 10th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Eddy | September 30th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | RE58 | January 24th 13 |
| 3.0 good | JRay18 | January 5th 13 |
| 2.5 average | RobotE | March 19th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Bog91 | January 23rd 12 |
| 2.5 average | Project | October 27th 11 |
| 3.0 good | toxin. | October 12th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Lakes. | October 3rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | Breeg | October 3rd 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Noemie | October 2nd 11 |
| 5.0 classic | dman761 | October 1st 11 |
| 2.0 poor | BroFro | September 29th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | seneca89 | September 17th 11 |
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