Claude says:Athlete's final record came out during a rough patch — the band had just left Parlophone as EMI collapsed, played acoustic shows with Switchfoot because they couldn't afford to bring their drummer, then decamped to LA with producer Tom Rothrock to make a pop-leaning stadium rock album that critics heard as Coldplay-adjacent. You grabbed it the month it dropped in late 2009 and kept "Superhuman Touch" and "The Getaway" in steady rotation through multiple waves — heaviest in 2012, then again in the early 2020s.