{"id":28,"date":"2008-06-13T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T09:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/06\/pick-of-the-week-jon-foremans.html"},"modified":"2008-06-13T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T09:08:04","slug":"pick-of-the-week-jon-foremans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/06\/pick-of-the-week-jon-foremans.html","title":{"rendered":"Pick of the week: Jon Foreman&#8217;s Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jon Foreman Spring-Summer Cover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/Jon%20Foreman%20Spring-Summer%20Cover.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nSwitchfoot frontman Jon Foreman recently released, <em>Summer<\/em>, the last of his four solo, seasonally-themed EPs. Each of the EPs, <em>Fall, Winter, Spring<\/em>, and <em>Summer<\/em>, are deeply intimate, and as Forman says, autobiographical.<br \/>\nLyrically, <em>Summer<\/em> is like viewing Foreman&#8217;s private diary, filled with questions and prayers, and, like the other EPs, deeply personal ponderings and yearnings. Musically, the EP is varied, from an almost mournful, mariachi sound on &#8220;A Mirror Is Harder To Hold&#8221; to an upbeat &#8220;Resurrect Me&#8221; to simple, organic and worshipful &#8220;Again.&#8221;<br \/>\nTruly beautiful, and my pick of the week.<br \/>\nThe six song EP is available now in digital format, and releases June 24 in a 2-disc <em>Spring <\/em>and <em>Summer<\/em> set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman recently released, Summer, the last of his four solo, seasonally-themed EPs. Each of the EPs, Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer, are deeply intimate, and as Forman says, autobiographical. 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