My Heart Revealed: Thy Name Is Mute Math

Once again, friends, I come to you to recount moments of times passed.  This episode, our story concerns a Mute Math concert I attended at City Hall (the entertainment space in the Gulch, not the government edifice) last month.  It was a surprisingly chilly evening, and I was on my way home from work when I got an impromptu invitation from my pal, Wes, to join him in his brother’s stead.  What serendipity!  Attending this event will forever remain one of the best spur-of-the moment decisions I have ever made. 

Unfortunately, my sensibilities had to endure a musically adequate, yet nonetheless anticlimactic opening set played by Eisley, an apparently girl band-loathing girl band touring with Mute Math this season.  Alas, Eisley did finally exit the stage.  And, as they were going, I could feel the crowd grow tense with anticipation.

After a good half-hour or more, when I had all but forgotten I had come to hear a live music performance, the throng suddenly roared with excitement.  I looked up to notice that the four-man band had finally materialized to relieve our restlessness.  Before a backdrop of large monitors displaying static, Mute Math began their set with the teasingly cyclical “Collapse”, the first track on their self-titled album.  I suppose, when the band decided that they had drawn out the overture as long as was necessary, “Collapse” flowed seamlessly into the album’s second track, “Typical”, an ode to 90s alternative meets all things sonorous and enrapturing. Hence forth unto the end of the concert, the crowd belonged to Mute Math.

Theirs was simply a well-executed performance, from start to finish.  With refined bravura and doubtless musical skill, Mute Math exceeded nearly the full gamut of my musical expectations—a feat not easily achieved by domestic fare.  My personal concert favorite was a smoky-voiced (i.e. laryngitis-afflicted) effort at Mute Math’s fifth track, “Noticed”.  At this time, I would like to echo lead singer Paul Meany’s lyrics and declare before the world, “I can’t believe I never noticed my heart before ‘til I noticed you!”  Oh, Mute Math…