{"id":5806,"date":"2016-03-29T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T14:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-unwritten-law-acoustic\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T14:49:26","slug":"album-review-unwritten-law-acoustic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-unwritten-law-acoustic\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Unwritten Law &#8211; Acoustic"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/92453f7c37d2a2d51c37a54b01aa556e\/tumblr_o4r1zuXp1E1r8no6so3_1280.jpg\" width=\"250em\" alt=\"image\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>You may or may not have heard of <b>Unwritten Law<\/b>. Formed in 1990, the rock band have since released 7 studio albums and have smashed out hit songs such as <i>\u2018Seein\u2019 Red\u2019<\/i> and <i>\u2018Save Me (Wake Me Up Call)\u2019<\/i>. The quartet are now looking to attract a new era of fans as they are set to release <i>\u2018Acoustic\u2019<\/i>, a mashup of polished, re-recorded tracks and also two brand new songs. <\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Celebration\u2019<\/i> kicks off the record and the electric rhythmic background reminiscent of <i>&lsquo;Meteora&rsquo;<\/i> era Linkin Park. It\u2019s an odd switch into the next track <i>\u2018Nevermind\u2019<\/i> as we are introduced with bouncy, staccato acoustic guitar strums. A cover of MSTRKRFT and John Legend\u2019s <i>\u2018Heartbreaker\u2019<\/i> comes into play and mixes in a strange traditional Indian middle eight to the electric mix. Weirdly, it works.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Save Me\u2019<\/i> is an interesting mix of an upbeat chord progression and dark, personal lyrics and it&rsquo;s a standout for its originality. <i>\u2018Cailin\u2019<\/i> is a shamelessly soppy but poignant song which shows off Scott Russo\u2019s lyrical abilities. Rounding the record off, a new track <i>\u2018Belongs To You\u2019<\/i>, returns to the electric rhythms of previous songs and while it unfortunately does not feel like a righteous closure for the album, it\u2019s still a consistent and eclectic track.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a very flowing record as the songs just don\u2019t follow into one another, but this does display the band\u2019s ability to experiment with their sound, which is commendable. While it\u2019s probably a more honest bet to listen to the original versions of these tracks for comparison, that\u2019s not to say that if you\u2019re a fan of bands such as Blink-182 you shouldn\u2019t give this eclectic mish-mash of a remaster a chance.<\/p>\n<p>3\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;Acoustic&rsquo;<\/i> by <b>Unwritten Law<\/b> is released on April 1st on <b>Cyber Tracks<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Unwritten Law links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unwrittenlaw.music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Unwritten_Law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Phoebe Messenger (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kangaezu_ni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kangaezu_ni<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may or may not have heard of Unwritten Law. Formed in 1990, the rock band have since released 7 studio albums and have smashed out hit songs such as \u2018Seein\u2019 Red\u2019 and \u2018Save Me (Wake Me Up Call)\u2019. The quartet are now looking to attract a new era of fans as they are set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3817,2893,3816],"class_list":["post-5806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-acoustic","tag-cyber-tracks","tag-unwritten-law"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Album Review: Unwritten Law - Acoustic - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You may or may not have heard of Unwritten Law. 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