RIAA Certified Gold®-selling Centricity Music band Unspoken releases its first new studio album in over five years, IV, which is available at digital and streaming outlets globally via https://unspokenband.lnk.to/IVunspoken. The foundational, undeniable love of God that is not changed by an ever-shifting culture nor the inevitable storms of life is the theme of the band’s 10-song, fourth studio project and long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s Reason.
IV’s anchor track and top 15 and climbing radio hit, “What He Says About You,” expands on that seminal topic of God’s love by challenging the false labels society places on people. Thinking about his young daughters and the message he wants etched on their impressionable hearts, Unspoken’s Chad Mattson wrote the driving, guitar-heavy selection with his bandmate Jon Lowry alongside songwriters Ethan Hulse, Tyrus Morgan, Tedd T, Tony Wood and Chris Stevens. Mattson wrestled with the lyrics over the course of six months to get to the core of a believer’s identity in Christ, ultimately reminding listeners that they are loved, chosen, held, forgiven and treasured by the Creator of the universe.
“It’s really hard to differentiate the truth from how we feel or who culture says we should be. So I hope this song just washes over people’s spirits, minds and hearts, reinforcing what the truth really is,” Mattson says. “There’s only one voice that matters, and it’s the voice of God.”
As he grappled with the song’s lyrics, the father of three realized he was writing them for himself as much as his children. “The same stuff that’s affecting my daughters is affecting me. I allow a lot more things from the outside world to inform my identity than I do Scripture. I often find myself on my phone more than I’m in the Word,” he admits. “I think it’s our job as parents to help our kids navigate these things and also limit, not only our children’s exposure to it, but our own.”
Like “What He Says About You,” the selections on IV feel like they were written in the midst of real life. Penning nearly 100 contenders over the course of the past five years, Mattson reflects, “I think we’ve just tried to write the songs that were in front of us.”
One of those, “More Church Than Church,” hinges on Mattson’s continued sobriety journey that began more than two decades ago. The cleverly penned track features country music A-lister Walker Hayes, who — like Mattson — has been vocal about being in active recovery.
Other standouts on the album include the pop-centric “Loved By You,” the celebratory “Love Is Everything We Need,” which affirms that loving our enemies is always the best course of action, “Say The Word,” a worshipful offering that calls us to bring whatever faith we can muster and place it in the capable hands of Jesus, and “Where My Joy Comes From.”
“Our job as believers is to reflect Jesus to people, and one of the greatest ways we do that is through the joy we have in whatever circumstance we’re in,” Mattson says of the standout original. “The world wants to tell us our joy comes from our circumstance, but we know that’s not true. How we live and how we respond to both joy and chaos are some of the greatest testimonies to the goodness of God.”
The full, IV track listing follows:
01) Hard Times
03) More Church Than Church
04) Loved By You
05) God Help Me
06) Where My Joy Comes From
07) Love Is Everything We Need
08) Hold On Take Heart
09) Never Running Out
10) Say The Word
Taking the new music and fan favorites on the road, Unspoken headlines its 19-city, 13-state “What He Says About You” tour featuring special guests JJ Weeks and Cade Thompson. The tour launched Sept. 6 and continues through Oct. 19. The itinerary includes:
Sep 25 Kalamazoo, MI Tickets
Sep 26 Lake Ann, MI Tickets
Sep 27 Holly, MI Tickets
Sep 28 Wilmore, KY, Ichthus Festival Tickets
Sep 29 Bloomington, IL Tickets
Oct 03 Kansas City, KS Tickets
Oct 04 Arlington Heights, IL Tickets
Oct 05 Watertown, SD Tickets
Oct 06 Neligh, NE Free
Oct 08 Riverton, WY Tickets
Oct 09 Cody, WY Tickets
Oct 11 Albuquerque, NM Tickets
Oct 12 Roswell, NM Tickets
Oct 13 Lamar, CO Tickets
Oct 15 Tulsa, OK Tickets
Oct 19 Pharr, TX Tickets
For more Unspoken music, tour, news and information, go to https://unspokenmusic.com/, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora.
About Unspoken:
Unspoken’s music is as distinct as its roots. Its soulful, pop-flavored songs are led by the Adam Levine-esque vocals of Chad Mattson. Fueled by Mattson’s transparency as a songwriter who has battled addiction and is now two decades into his sobriety, along with Jon Lowry (guitar, bass), Ariel Munoz (drums) and Matthew Calloway (keys), Unspoken has racked up three No. 1 Billboard radio songs (“Reason,” “Start A Fire,” “Lift My Life Up”), 11 Top 15 hits (including “Good Fight,” “You’ve Always Been,” “Who You Are”), over 350M on-demand streams and more than 152M music video views since its formation in 2014. Having toured with TobyMac, Casting Crowns, Mercy Me, Big Daddy Weave and more, Unspoken band members are living out their mission to be unspoken testimonies to God’s love and power and to speak what oftentimes goes unsaid.
About Centricity Music:
The No. 1 Billboard Top Christian Albums Imprint for three consecutive years, Centricity Music is an independent Christian music company based in Franklin, TN. Founded in 2005 with a commitment to artist development and stylistic diversity, its artist roster includes Andrew Peterson, Band Reeves, Bay Turner, Brandon Heath, Centricity Worship, Chris Renzema, Jason Gray, Jaye King, John Allan, Jordan Feliz, Katy Nichole, Lauren Daigle, Mack Brock, Natalie Layne, Patrick Mayberry, Rachel Purcell and Unspoken. Providing label and publishing services, Centricity is a family-owned organization. The committed work of its staff and artists has yielded successes such as Grammy Awards, Billboard Awards, Dove Awards, K-Love Fan Awards, and multiple Gold and Platinum Albums and Singles. For more Information on Centricity Music, visit https://centricitymusic.com/.
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