Unexpected is the solo album I(Travis) recorded during C?M's hiatus.  Engineer Dustin Yoder and I moved to Florida and we recorded this during our stay there.  The fact that this was our fourth collaboration, coupled with improved digital recording technology and better outboard gear made this the highest quality project we had worked on.  I had many personal songs and themes that were more introspective than what I would usually put on a band-made album, so those parts and pieces along with new songs written during the sessions became the album that you can hear now.

Some Unexpected fun facts:

• We built 4x8 sound proofing walls out of carpet padding torn out of a Disney hotel
• Those 4x8 walls were used in the buildig of two different studios we built in two separate houses we lived in during the duration of the recording.
• We encountered 3 hurricanes over the summer of recording in the second house.  Though there was plenty of damage outside, the house and studio suffered little more than a tiny leak in the roof.
• I was married shortly after recording had wrapped up and the track "It's Better" was used for the sountrack to our first dance and was the first time my wife had heard the finished version of the song.
• Over 40 sets of guitar strings were used over the 2 year recording time.  That's a lot for one guy!
• There were five songs that didn't make the cut for the album, including one that had a choir singing latin. 
• It changes from time to time, but my overall favorites are "Feast or Famine", "The Truth is", and "Pacify Me".  All three were very different and I loved the way they turned out.
• The bulk of the drumming on the album was done through sampling and programming.  I'm not a good enough drummer to be studio-worthy, so I went that route instead and just pretended.