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MUTEMATH
American rock band
Mutemath is an American alternative rock project founded by singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer Paul Meany. Originally co-founded as a band with Darren King in 2002, Meany decided to continue Mutemath as a solo project following King's departure in 2017.
Mutemath draws heavily from influences in 1960s and 1970s soul, psychedelic rock, and jam band styles, utilizing vintage guitars and amplifiers as well as Rhodes keyboards, synthesizers, and other electronic instruments such as the keytar.
Mutemath started in 2002 as a long-distance collaboration between Paul Meany in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Darren King in Springfield, Missouri. The two had known each other from their work together in Meany's previous band Earthsuit. Occasionally Meany would receive instrumental demo CDs from King. Fairly impressed with his efforts, Meany contacted King and asked if he could mess with the demos a bit, adding some ideas of his own. King obliged and the two would set in motion a sort of songwriting ping-pong match that would carry on for several months.
Energetically stylized as MUTEMATH on artwork, initially named MATH, were officially formed in 2002 after Paul Meany and Darren King spent two years collaborating and sharing ideas on various pieces they were working on. The pair recruited Greg Hill and Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas to help record a demo in New Orleans, and Meany took the resulting tracks to friend and producer Tedd T. Mutemath's sound is an extension of former band 's, since all the original Mutemath members (apart from Greg Hill) were members of that group. Earthsuit mixed genres such as rock, reggae, funk, jazz and electronic. Mutemath takes this blend a step further and aim for a more experimental and atmospheric sound, with their newer style as electro-alt rock, incorporating a strong rhymthic component and live improvisation.
Greg Hill left the band after Armistice. Todd Gummerman was recruited as his replacement for the Odd Soul tour. Mitchel-Cárdenas left the band in May 2017 and was replaced by Jonathan Allen. Also in 2017, founding member Darren King unexpectedly announced his immediate resignation right before the start of the Play Dead tour. A replacement t
Also known as: Mute Math
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Liner notes
MUTEMATH, the records, oldest first
Reset EP
2004 ep
MUTEMATH
2006 album
Spotlight
2009 ep
Armistice
2009 album
Odd Soul
2011 album
Vitals
2015 album
Play Dead
2017 album
Voice in the Silence
2018 ep
Distance EP
2024 ep
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.