Unspoken – Full Circle

Despite the intense pressure to live up to the success of the first record, the songs flowed with relative ease this time around.

“We all compiled a bunch of ideas. Our phones were full of voice notes,” recalls Mattson with a laugh. “But by January, we only had three or four songs and we were starting to stress. That’s when we had to come to the realization that our agenda had to go. We can work hard, but none of that really matters until He touches it and makes it something. Once we grasped that, we had so many songs we had to create a Deluxe edition (buy).”

With almost more songs than they knew what to do with, Mattson and company laid those songs in the hands of two very different and incredibly accomplished producers—Seth Mosley and Chad Keyes, with each producer taking about half of the songs.

“The goal is to never do the same record twice,” says Mattson. “We always want to grow and push boundaries. There’s a lot of different music on this, which brings a little bit of a risk. But if you play it safe, there’s usually not much of a payoff.”

Suffice it to say, they didn’t play it safe on album number two, aptly titled, Follow Through (buy). While the tracks consistently bolster the main idea suggested by the title, an overarching theme wasn’t necessarily intentional or immediately apparent to the band.

“There usually is a theme, but we just don’t know what it is until six months after the record is done,” adds Mattson. “He leads us to write different songs out of different things we’re going through. At the end of the record, when it’s done and you live with it for a bit you realize, ‘Okay, this is what the record is about.’ It’s kind of amazing to step back and see the Lord work like that. Collectively, we begin talking and see where the Lord takes it.”

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