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Learning to Breathe (Switchfoot album)

2000 studio album by Switchfoot

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ1937312 ↗
Source-derived summary

Learning to Breathe is the third studio album by the band Switchfoot. It was released on September 26, 2000. It was their final record for independent label re:think Records, which was distributed by Sparrow Records. This album also received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Gospel Album in 2001.

Promotion

A music video was filmed for the song "You Already Take Me There". It shows the band skydiving out of an airplane, and playing the song on the ground.

Editorial summary

“Learning to Breathe (Switchfoot album)” enters the record as 2000 studio album by Switchfoot. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Learning, Breathe and Switchfoot can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Learning, Breathe and Switchfoot.
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Why this record matters

“Learning to Breathe (Switchfoot album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Learning, Breathe and Switchfoot provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1937312. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Learning to Breathe (Switchfoot album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.