Editing Switchfoot (section)

===Major-label independence, ‘’The Best Yet’’ (2007–2008)===
Later on August 10, 2007, Jon Foreman revealed that the band had severed ties with [[Columbia Records]] in order to release music as an [[Independent music|Indie band]]. “Neither party has any hard feelings,” he said of the split a few months later. “I think for us, the reason why we signed with Columbia was because of the people that were there. So it’s very understandable when all those people are gone, you don’t hold any real bad feelings or good feelings towards a company name. I think that’s part of the problem with the corporate entity as a whole is that there’s no true responsibility.”<ref name="Mammoth Press">
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 |title       = Switchfoot – 02.24.08
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 |date        = March 19, 2008
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</ref> In October 2007, the band announced that they had created a new record label called [[lowercase people records]], in order to better make a direct connection with their fans.

Jon Foreman began working on his [[Jon Foreman#Solo discography|own set of solo EPs]] (one named after each season of the year); the first of these was released on November 27, 2007, the last on June 10, 2008.<ref name="antimusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.antimusic.com/news/07/nov/21Switchfoot_Frontman_Releasing_Seasonal_Solo_EPs.shtml|title=Switchfoot Frontman Releasing Seasonal Solo EPs|work=antimusic.com|publisher=Iconoclast Entertainment Group|date=November 20, 2007|access-date=November 25, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122233519/http://www.antimusic.com/news/07/nov/21Switchfoot_Frontman_Releasing_Seasonal_Solo_EPs.shtml|archive-date=November 22, 2007}}</ref> “Your Love Is Strong” is the most well known from the string of releases. Each of his EPs contained six songs. At the end of the process, he released a sort of “best of” album called Limbs and Branches. Foreman wrote two additional songs for this called “Over the River” and “Broken from the Start”. Once all four EPs were released, they were re-released on vinyl in limited quantity.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://bandfarm.com/bandfarm/product/?catID=33&prodID=2209 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101028223854/http://bandfarm.com/bandfarm/product/?catID=33&prodID=2209 | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 28, 2010 | title = Jon Foreman – Seasonal Box Set | access-date = April 6, 2011 }}</ref> Foreman also began a side project with [[Sean Watkins]] of [[Nickel Creek]] which was originally called “The Real SeanJon” but later renamed “[[Fiction Family]]“.

With their new status as an independent band, Switchfoot embarked on their 2007 fall tour, playing shows with [[Relient K]] and [[Ruth (band)|Ruth]]. The tour, dubbed the “[[Appetite for Construction Tour]]“, was designed to benefit [[Habitat for Humanity International|Habitat For Humanity]] with the bands donating one dollar per ticket sold to the cause.<ref name="2theadvocate">{{Cite news |last=Wirt |first=John |date=2007-10-26 |title=Bands Using Music To "Build" Something That Lasts |url=https://theadvocate.newsbank.com/doc/news/11C8960086792E48 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250417021644/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AMNEWS&docref=news/11C8960086792E48&f=basic |archive-date=2025-04-17 |access-date=2025-04-17 |work=[[The Advocate (Louisiana)|The Advocate]] |page=22 |via=[[NewsBank]]}}</ref> In addition, Foreman wrote the song “[[Rebuild (song)|Rebuild]]“ with [[Matt Thiessen]] from [[Relient K]], and released it as a way to raise additional money for Habitat. By the end of the tour, the bands had raised over $100,000 for Habitat for Humanity.<ref name="ccm09">
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 |url=http://www.ccmmagazine.com/music/artist/switchfoot/11562178/
 |title=Switchfoot Raises Over $100,000 For Habitat For Humanity
 |magazine=[[CCM Magazine]]
 |access-date=November 19, 2009}}
</ref> With no new album to promote, the band continued touring for philanthropic causes, booking a short national tour in March through May (titled the Up In Arms Tour), partnering with and benefitting the organization [[To Write Love on Her Arms]].<ref name="twloha">{{cite web|url=http://titletrakkmusicnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/switchfoot-up-in-arms-tour-to-benefit.html|title=Switchfoot "Up In Arms" tour to Benefit To Write Love On Her Arms|date=February 13, 2008|access-date=November 19, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708070732/http://titletrakkmusicnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/switchfoot-up-in-arms-tour-to-benefit.html|archive-date=July 8, 2011}}</ref>

In March 2008, the band wrote and recorded a new song called “[[This Is Home]]“ for the film ‘’[[The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian]]‘’.<ref>
 {{cite web
 |url=http://www.cmcentral.com/rss/7803.html
 |title=Third Day, Switchfoot, Jars of Clay and Robert Randolf and the Family Band Launch Music Builds Tour
 |access-date=September 26, 2008
 |last=Scranton
 |first=Lindsay
 |date=April 18, 2008
 |publisher=CMCentral.com |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080617230216/http://www.cmcentral.com/rss/7803.html |archive-date = June 17, 2008}}
</ref> The song was included on the film’s [[The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (soundtrack)|official soundtrack]] and an accompanying music video was also filmed, with footage from the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/1447029/switchfoot_plays_music_without_walls/ |title=Switchfoot Plays Music Without Walls |date=June 24, 2008 |access-date=July 3, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629100740/http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/1447029/switchfoot_plays_music_without_walls/ |archive-date=June 29, 2008 }}</ref>

Later that year, [[Columbia Records]]/Sony Music released a Switchfoot greatest hits compilation album titled ‘’[[The Best Yet]]‘’, a sort of “final farewell from [[Sony Music|Sony]].”<ref name="Best Yet">{{cite web|url=http://www.landofbrokenhearts.org/boardposts.php|title=The Best Yet CD|last=Foreman|first=Tim|author-link=Tim Foreman|date=August 29, 2008|access-date=November 19, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110064233/http://www.landofbrokenhearts.org/boardposts.php|archive-date=November 10, 2009}}</ref>