Glen Phillips’s penchant for creating introspective, affecting music that addresses some of life’s weightiest themes has been apparent since he founded Toad the Wet Sprocket as a teenager. While the casual observer may have considered the chart-topping ‘90s band to be light-hearted, indie-pop fare, serious listeners knew that couched in Toad’s jangly, upbeat melodies were Phillips’s lyrics that questioned faith, the future, and one’s place and the world.
