Rock act Switchfoot [ tickets ] offers up its fifth album this month and has mapped out a supporting tour that stretches into late April.

Titled "The Beautiful Letdown," the group's new set is due to hit shelves on Feb. 25. The group's official website features an "interactive-tour" of the new album, which includes streaming audio of 11 of the album's 14 tracks.

Group frontman Jonathan Foreman explained the meaning behind the new album in the band's record-company bio sheet.

"'The Beautiful Letdown' is about real life: the good, the bad, and the ugly," he wrote. "It's an honest attempt to reflect on the great and terrible aspects of being human, the tension of existence. A lot of people run away from this tension because the problems in our world are too hard to face. But the tension of being human is where we live and think and breathe. In fact, the very lowest moments in our lives are when we stand toe to toe with the truth about ourselves and our world."

Foreman and his brother, bassist Jonathan Foreman, formed Switchfoot in the mid-'90s. The group also includes drummer Chad Butler and guitarist-keyboardist Jerome Fontamillas.