Emotionalpunk.com
Media Review
Music Quality: 9.5
Production: 10.0
Originality: 10.0
Tracklisting
2. Typical
3. After We Have Left Our Homes
4. Chaos
5. Noticed
6. Without It
7. Polite
8. Stare At The Sun
9. Obsolete
10. Break The Same
11. You Are Mine
12. Picture
13. Stall Out
Mute Math are a band who know what they’re doing. With an ear for electronic instrumentation with a rock edge, their debut EP was a prelude to what they were capable of doing. “Mute Math,” the full-length, is an avid display of fluidity, songs gently swaying the listener into different moods, but all the while maintaining a very mellow, solid feel. “Chaos,” the vivid, energetic song that tends to stick out a bit, reveals the hooky, catchy sound Mute Math is capable of displaying—while songs like “Break The Same” are lyrically and musically somber and mature.
And that might be the best way to describe this album: mature. The band has an approach that is truly mainstream and big in sound, but stay true to their originally conceived roots in electronic pop rock. The songwriter here is clever in his lyrical endeavors, while exploring concrete ideas: the closing track, “Stall Out” is a touching jam filled with doubt and uncertainty; “Break The Same” explores the empathy of the human spirit, and the incapable nature in which we all feel the same when things get tough.
All in all, Mute Math’s first full length and second release is a brilliant vision of a band who know what they are trying to do with their sound, of a band who are capable of playing songs that are appealing to a wide cast of tastes, and of a band who are no doubt going to have their biggest year yet when people finally discover them.