Unspoken

Unplugged
Centricity Music

Unspoken released its new album, “Unplugged,” on April 28. The album features five new songs co-written by Unspoken including, “Broken Man,” “Green Light,” “Born With A Broken Heart” and “Solid Rock.” The project by Centricity Music’s pop/rock band also contains acoustic versions of several of the band’s hits including the Top 5 song “Who You Are,” the latest single “Good Fight” and “Start a Fire,” which became the group’s first No. 1 single at AC radio.

Chad Mattson, the group’s lead singer, had this to say about the new album and the recording process: “This Unplugged project was a very gratifying record for us to create. Putting new faces on some familiar songs and recording a few of those ‘gems’ that didn’t quite find a spot on our previous records … [and] stripping songs back to their organic state is something we have always loved and recording together in one big room couldn’t have been more spiritual, intimate and flat-out fun. Enjoy.”

As a musician, I appreciate the vast differences between “normal” multitrack recording these days and the recording process described by Mattson. The finished result may not possess the technical flawless characteristic of modern multitrack recording, but it gains much more in feel and emotion than it gives up. If you’ve heard Unspoken live, you’ll understand.