Fair or not, there’s a temptation to lump MuteMath in with groups like Wales’s People in Planes: bands with the musical ability, ambition and vision to attempt to change the mainstream from within. Replacing PiP’s angst with a more positive attitude, MuteMath’s sophmore disc starts out with a bang and a half. “The Nerve” is a virtual manifesto, a call to change not just for music but the planet Earth, itself.
Using thoroughly modern production techniques, booming bass lines, percussive texture and splashes of piano, MuteMath fire off an ambitious opening salvo that the rest of the album never quite lives up to. Some of the songs overreach lyrically and a number of the tracks pale in comparison to Armistice’s strongest links. To qualify, MuteMath’s most mediocre could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with many of their associates’ strongest material. Aiming high and falling a little short is not necessarily a bad thing and this is a band that offers hope for the future of mainstream rock.
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