Allegiance to a country

After listening through some of the samples of the upcoming Switchfoot album 'Nothing Is Sound', for which I have probably impossibly high hopes, I found something irresistible.

"I pledge allegiance to a country without borders,
Without politicians..."

Previously 'A Beautiful Letdown' inspired hope that Christian music, even by Americans, could have such a passion behind it, bleeding through it, that is more Jesus-like than just Christian-like. The lively repudiation of the fabric of modern Western middle-class life... even that of all who will be buying their music, but who still want to believe that there's a breath somewhere through the suffocating plastic-coat.

The first plays of the first few samples didn't seem that gripping... even verging on 'samey'... one of the very things I liked in how they weren't; setting them out as more creative than most professional Christians. But I'm well on my way to being convinced. Also it has 'Daisy', which I've had as a partial live-preview download for months, and come to regard as a favourite beautiful song, makes buying it almost certain. Especially when he says things like this:

No, I don't believe in rock and roll. No, I don't believe in the success that we've achieved. And no, I don't believe in me. In a free market world of the bought and sold I feel caught in between. I believe I've heard about a man who was exploited to sell everything from indulgences to the wars of men. And yet he offered only one bitter pill that was not easily marketed. Maybe that's what this record hopes to be: a simple bitter pill of truth that steps outside of our hamster wheel and looks up at the stars and beyond.