Mute Math – Mute Math (Teleprompt Edition)

1. Collapse
2. Typical
3. After We Have Left Our Homes
4. Noticed **
5. Without It **
6. Polite
7. Stare at the Sun
8. Obsolete **
9. Break the Same
10. You Are Mine **
11. Picture
12. Stall out

**Clear Favorites

The piano and drums are featured heavily throughout the tracks, though I use ‘heavily’ in a loose sense. What I mean to say is they are the featured instruments throughout their debut album. The whole thing tends to remind me of a cyberpunk film nóir (someone tell me if I used the wrong character there) Adding to the point is the fact that many of the tracks don’t even feature singing; they’re purely instrumental.

One thing that can start to grate on you is the fact that the singer sounds the exact same in every song where he does sing. Some people may not mind or even notice this, but for people like me who have a horrible habit of skipping artists for variation… well it gets sort of old. Like I said, you need to be in the mood to listen to this one.

As an aside, I almost favorite-ed the second track “Typical” as it is a fairly solid track but ironically, I found it rather typical-sounding in and of itself. It’s a good track, but just didn’t make the cut for me.

It’s a fairly laid-back album and you really need to be in the mood to listen to it. I suggest either driving your car around metropoli (what the hell is the multiple for metropolis?) in car commercials, or when you otherwise need to be very calm and reflective. I’m glad I have the album, but only for certain tracks. Hell, three don’t even qualify as tracks in my book. Being all under 1:30 they’re just long interludes as far as I’m concerned.

6/10