He had a smirk on his face as he talked about one of the “big memories” from the year when Earthsuit came to a crashing finish. We were literally watching people leave our show every night.” “Man, 2002 was a rough year,” Mute Math vocalist Paul Meany said as we sat backstage after their set. It is this stage that marked one of the last performances of their former band Earthsuit, and what was thought to be the end of their time together as a group. As irony would have it, it’s the very same stage that some of the band members walked off just two years before to a much different reaction. An ovation erupts as the band charges through its last song, graciously thanks the audience and walks off the stage. It only takes a few measures of the first song for the audience to go from curious to captivated. It’s as if they just walked off the pages of some underground New York fashion-zine.įor the next 25 minutes, Mute Math proceeds to make 1,200 new fans. Four neck-tied men casually take the stage as a curious hush falls over the crowd. There are three bands on the schedule for the evening, but most of the fans are here only to see headliner, the David Crowder Band. You can buy that issue here.įog seeps over the edge of the stage of the dark, standing-room-only venue. Below is an excerpt from the March 2005 cover story. But rather than talking about the new project, which you can stream below, we thought it might be interesting to take you back to the beginning-to see how Mute Math formed from the ashes of Earthsuit, the band’s hope for their future (right before an unseen two-year delay in the album coming out) and our impressions of them before they were regularly playing sold-out tours and late-night talk shows. Today, the guys released their highly anticipated second full-length, Armistice, to much critical acclaim. But because of label contract disputes, that album’s release was delayed until Sept. The next spring, we helped introduce them to our readers by putting them on the cover of our March 2005 New Music Issue around the anticipated release of their debut album.
We go back in time to look at the band as they were just starting out.Įditor’s note: Way back in the fall of 2004, a very cool new band called Mute Math played a show for about 500 people at our office, and absolutely blew everyone away.
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