Song · Switchfoot
“Dark Horses” by Switchfoot
From the album Vice Verses (2011)
“Dark Horses” by Switchfoot appears on 19 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2011 and 2012. It was first released in 2011 on the album Vice Verses. Its best result is #11 on the X96 Top 50 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #32 alternative song of 2011 and #87 of the '10s.
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"Dark Horses" ushered in Vice Verses, Switchfoot's eighth studio album, turning up on the band's website in July 2011 and reaching radio in early August. It had been knocking around for more than a year by then: the band soundchecked it once in Amsterdam in June 2010, on the Hello Hurricane tour, and worked it into a handful of shows that fall.
The Vice Verses sessions pulled it apart and put it back together, with a new chorus carrying a different melody and a rebuilt second verse, and the overhauled version made its live bow in Winnipeg in May 2011 before riding out a summer of festival stages. Jon and Tim Foreman wrote it, and Neal Avron produced, engineered and mixed it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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