NORTH is the title of Matchbox Twenty's fourth album, the quartet's first release in five years and its first set of all-new material in a decade. And like other connotations of the word, the 12-song set represents a determined journey, a carefully considered path that combines earnest melodicism with sly and even snarky fun as well as a new internal world order that has made Matchbox Twenty a tighter and even more collaborative band than ever before in its 17-year career.
"We approached this record a lot differently," attests front man Rob...
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