He's also here to celebrate their new album, interrobang, which was released on August 20. "I was in a bad state of mind at the time, but that record f *ing lifted me out of some weird stuff," Walker tells them. They don't flinch when Walker-who's "three years clean and serene" recounts a tale about listening to Nothing Is Sound "30 times in a row" while smoking crack. The Foremans get a huge kick out of his lowbrow humor, business savvy and encylopedic knowledge of music. Walker's very public love for Switchfoot isn't ironic or provocative: He genuinely loves them from the hits to the deep cuts- far more than even some foundational figures like Leonard Cohenand Townes Van Zandt. Their polished hits are as far from fried Drag City-style noise jams as you can get.īut upon joining a Zoom call between Walker and Switchfoot's founding brothers Jon and Tim Foreman, the three are instantly all smiles, as if Walker is their long-lost sibling. In those days, their introspective singles "Dare You to Move" and "Meant to Live" dominated the airwaves. Switchfoot are a wildly successful, GRAMMY-winning rock band nominally in that market, whose songs were inescapable if you went to youth group in the George W.
This week, he's in Vermont making music he describes as "bald-ponytail spirituals" for an audience of "Wookiees"-his term for "somebody who wears a Shure microphone shirt." This is not a conventional consumer of mid-2000s Christian radio-rock. Ryley Walker is a singer/songwriter and label owner with a bizarre, hilarious Twitter account and a cult following in the "indie jam" scene.
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