As of late June, the single started receiving major airplay in Modern Rock quickly rising up the Mediabase Alternative chart jumping from #115 to #65 and was also the second most added song on Alternative stations the week of June 13, 2007. "Typical" was also released as Mute Math's first radio single on April 10, 2007. When asked whether singing backwards or drumming backwards was more difficult, Paul Meany answered, "Darren had it the hardest." It took three weeks for Mute Math to learn their parts backwards. The video made it on the New York Post Hot List and registered more than 100,000 views in less than four days. The video was directed by Israel Anthem and features the band performing the song backwards. Mute Math's first music video, for " Typical", premiered on YouTube on March 21, 2007. The band also received some unexpected publicity on American Idol when contestant Chris Sligh sang " Typical" on the show's Top 24 episode. Flesh And Bones Electric Fun, an exclusive live DVD was released on Mawith an accompanying 43-city North American tour that ran through the first of May. The band returned to the road in early 2007 with opening dates for The Fray and Wolfmother in various cities and a brief headlining tour in Europe.
The album debuted at #17 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. The fully remastered album features reworked tracks from their Reset EP and a bonus limited-edition live EP. WBR re-released the band's debut album Mute Math on September 26, 2006. Records, Teleprompt settled litigation out of court in August 2006 with a re-negotiated contract with Warner. The group continued to tour vigorously, playing shows to crowds of thousands at festivals such as Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Van's Warped Tour, V Festival, CMJ Music Marathon in New York City, and Voodoo Music Experience in their hometown of New Orleans.Īfter months of legal wrangling with parent label Warner Bros. Mute Math landed on the covers of Billboard and Pollstar being featured in Alternative Press, Paste, and Spin as well as on the MTV News program 'You Hear It First'. The special edition of the album was only available as a "tour-only" release until it hit the Internet on Teleprompt's online store, selling more than 10,000 copies in its first month. The band sold over 30,000 copies of Reset EP before the album went out of print in 2006.Ĭover of the live DVD Flesh and Bones Electric Fun, released March 2007. By the fall of that year, they joined The Music is Much Too Loud Tour opening for Mae and Circa Survive where they chronicled their shows and updated their video blogs on a nightly basis gradually attracting more and more people to the Mute Math ground-swell. As their fan base grew, it began to see an increasing number of shows sell out by the Spring of 2005. The band left MACROSICK, recruited bass player Roy Mitchell-Cardenas and began touring to promote the release, using popular social networking sites like MySpace to spread word of the group. Teleprompt entered into a developmental-deal agreement with Warner Music Group in 2004, releasing Mute Math's debut Reset EP that fall. Meany recruited Tedd T and lawyer and former Earthsuit manager Kevin Kookogey to form Teleprompt Records as a way to independently control Mute Math releases. Reset EPĪfter months of considering different options for their new venture, the group decided to do things on their own and officially changed their name to "Mute Math" after discovering that "MATH" was already being used by another group. The trio continued to work on demos with Tedd T for a possible EP while playing shows with another Earthsuit member in Adam LaClave's art-rock group MACROSICK. Paul immediately played the demos for longtime friend and producer Tedd T, who fell in love at first listen. With the recruiting of guitarist Greg Hill, the trio worked in their New Orleans home studio writing and recording a whole new collection of songs. The two worked on demos and played a handful of shows under the moniker "MATH". After Earthsuit finally disbanded, King moved to New Orleans and began to talk of a possible collaboration with Meany. Darren obliged and the two would set in motion a sort of songwriting ping-pong match that would carry on for several months until Darren was asked to fill in as drummer for Earthsuit as the experimental Christian-rock band began to quickly dissolve.
Fairly impressed with his efforts, Paul contacted Darren and asked if he could mess with the demos a bit, adding some ideas of his own. Occasionally Paul would receive instrumental demo CDs from Darren. The two had known each other from their work together in Meany's previous band Earthsuit. Mute Math started in 2001 as a long distance collaboration between Paul Meany in New Orleans, Louisiana and Darren King in Springfield, Missouri.
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