Music Monday Oct 12th, 2026

tl;dr: Shuffle picks Switchfoot’s Vice Verses, an album that’s never really left rotation. Like it says in the overview, pick one album from your library at random and listen to it front to back. When it’s done, write a little blurb-y thing about it. This week’s album Shuffle has brought me a long-running band, and an album that I’ve listened to beginning to end many, many times. Switchfoot - Vice Verses (MusicBrainz, Discogs) was released in 2011, at a time when I was working about 300 hours a week, never home, and spent a lot of time with headphones in. This was before the explosion of streamining, so I was still manually loading mp3s onto a portable music player for the hours (side note: I still have that music player with some tracks that I will never be able to find again; I can’t find a data cable to get them off.) Vice Verses is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Switchfoot. It was released on September 27, 2011. “Dark Horses” was the first single…