We were introduced to Armistice, MUTEMATH’s new album in August and let me say it was worth the wait. After many years of touring and recording MUTEMATH’s sophomore release finally came together.
“We didn’t want our sophomore record to sound like a bunch of first record b-sides,” Paul Meany, frontman for MUTEMATH, said, “the recorded was sounding like that, we were trying to find that genuine inspiration that caused the first recorded to be recorded.”
“We finished our recorded like five times” Meany said “every time we thought we had finished it we would go and eat at Wolfgang Pucks.”
Armistice was inspired by music that is almost the anti-thesis of MUTEMATH. Songs from Meany and company are normally very complex with a huge number of tracks.
“Inspiration came from very striped down music, lots of acoustic singer songwriter stuff like bob Dylan, James Taylor and Crosby, Stills and Nash…. really calm things and being challenged by that,” Meany said, “We wanted to find our own way in uncovering that sort of musical phenomena.”
Live shows are where it is at with MUTEMATH. They put on a show—well just skip to the bottom for the glowing review on their live shows—but what is their favorite song to play live?
“Burden the last song on the [new] recorded and the last song written for the record it has really come into it own live and has a nice framework and freedom in that song. We take our time with that song,” Meany said.
If anyone wants to see a show that changes your life and cause you to question your measuring stick for every other live show, see MUTEMATH. They allow you into their world and cause you to experience the music instead of just listen to it. A MUTEMATH show is definitely worth any price.
The following are recommendations from Paul Meany for a good time:
James Brown—“Best recordings performer/writer”
Eleanor Rigby by Ray Charles— “Every human needs to encounter this song once in your life time you will have ea better day for it.”
The Foals —“Good rock band that melds genres that you wouldn’t think would work.”
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