Where the Light Shines Through
Where the Light Shines Through is the tenth studio album by American rock band Switchfoot, released on July 8, 2016. The album was recorded in the band's recording studio Spot X in their hometown San Diego, and produced by Switchfoot and John Fields, with whom the band has worked on their breakthrough album The Beautiful Letdown and its follow-ups, Nothing Is Sound and Oh! Gravity.. It is Switchfoot's first and only album to be released through Vanguard Records.
Promotion
On March 10, 2016, Switchfoot released a behind-the-scenes video showing the band working on their tenth studio album.Album title and release date were officially announced on May 12, 2016.
Later the same day, the band released a trailer for the album, and a music video for an acoustic version of "Live It Well" onto YouTube. "Float" was released to radio on May 18, 2016. An official music video for "Float", filmed in Manila, was released at 6:00a.m. Pacific Time on May 25, 2016. The band premiered the title track "Where the Light Shines Through" on June 3, 2016, at the Del Mar Fair in San Diego, CA. Six days later, they released the official studio recording of the same track on iTunes.
Personnel
Switchfoot- Jon Foreman – lead vocals, guitar
- Tim Foreman – bass guitar, background vocals
- Chad Butler – drums, percussion
- Jerome Fontamillas – keyboards, guitar
- Drew Shirley – guitar
- Switchfoot – production
- John Fields – production
- Lenny Skolnik − additional production
- Joseph Barba − additional production
- Tanner Sparks – engineering, mixing
- Paul David Hager – mixing
- Lecrae – vocals
- Eric Owyoung − strings
- Keith Tutt II − cello section
- John Painter − horns
- Boaz Roberts − guitar
- Robert Randolph − pedal steel
- Sam Dark – oboe