Mute Math - Mute Math
Now I see why I got so hooked on this album so quick… I’m such a sucker for these spacey guitar sounds. To me, this album really seems reminiscent of Failure (especially Fantastic Planet). I’m always up for praising Fantastic Planet, so to make the comparison is certainly an honour. I especially heard this parallel when I came to the track, ‘Noticed’.
I first heard the single, ‘Chaos’, about two weeks ago on 102.1 The Edge here, just outside of Toronto. Although the album seems to have been out side September of last year, I really just wanted to write a quick opinion piece on it. The first thing I loved were the cool, familiar guitar riffs, but I simply couldn’t get past the vocals. They seemed to be downfall. While it was still catchy, but not annoyingly so, they seemed to be a burden on the music behind it that I really wanted to hear. Listening to the rest of the album, it’s really not so bad. It’s not that vocalist Paul Meany sounds terrible, per se, it just didn’t seem to fit. Listening to it some more, the vocals seem to fit in some songs more than others. With the band’s slower songs, the vocals first nicely and didn’t attract my attention — which is exactly how I like it.
The key song on this album, for me, was ‘Stare at the Sun’. So simple, but it seemed so beautifully composed, and ripe with all those spacey guitar parts and sound effects I can’t ever seem to get enough of. I decided to look up the lyrics for the track too and I was pretty impressed. The content really seemed to hit home in some way or another and seemed very well written.
While most of the songs follow, more or less, the typical verse-chorus-bridge composition that you can hear anywhere else on the radio, I definitely think they’re trying for a little bit more. Some of the song writing was surprising, attention-grabbing, and made an otherwise average song become interesting.
Overall the album seems really well composed and put together, and it’s certainly one I’ll keep on my playlist for a while.