Reviews and Such

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   Yesterday the new Switchfoot album, Hello Hurricane, came out after 2 years of anticipation.  A week ago, Switchfoot had the entire album streaming on their Myspace page so I was able to listen to it in its entirety…multiple times.  I absolutely love it.  In my opinion, its their best album yet, both lyrically and musically.  The title of the album concerns the proverbial hurricanes that  we all face on a daily basis and how we can overcome them with Love.  I really connected with this album and its lyrics.  In interviews with the band, they talk a lot about how the process of making the album was a very trying time for them.  They just recently went independent with their music so they could have more freedom.  In the past 2 years, they built their own studio and recorded 90 songs.  90 SONGS! Thats a lot of songs to choose from for one album.  I, of course, was not able to hear the other songs that were not chosen but I think they did a great job with the mix of hard hitting songs (“Mess of Me”) with slower rock melodies (“Your Love is a Song”).  The Deluxe album is on iTunes ($12.99) and Amazon MP3 ($10.99).
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Along with buying the new Switchfoot album, I also rented the newly released, Michael Bay directed, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  I was not able to see this this past summer because I was working camp.  I was really excited about but had heard nothing but bad reviews.  Much like all of Bay’s other films, it was filled with explosions and special effects.  However, for some reason, Bay went with a much more humorous feel to this film.  I have to admit much the comments and jokes were funny but they almost seemed out of place in this film.  Because there were so many pauses in the action, the movie seemed to drag on at times.  Attempting to flush out the relationship between Sam (Labeouf) and Makayla (Fox), Bay turned half of the movie into a very teen angsty soap opera.  Overall, the visual effects and robots were stunning and a force to be reckoned with.  I would give it a 3 out of 5 stars.