Please forgive the repetition of another music review, but I’ve been lucky enough to come across some good stuff lately and I just can’t help myself.
In the words of the current issue of Relevant, “Mute Math’s self-titled album breaks from the expected and delivers a collection of songs that is unexpected and far from typical.” Indeed.
Once in a great while an album comes out that you find you can listen to straight through over and over again, and with each new encounter the music seems to open up more to you, to reveal more of its depth, as though you were getting to know the album, getting to know the band. Mute Math’s self title deput is such an album for me.
The music, itself, is thrilling. Their use of electronic sound is masterful and the percussion is incredible one track after another. And the lyrics are super-charged. Challenging, encouraging, inspiring–and all this without sounding “happy-Jesus” as is less frequent, but still too often the case with so-called “Christian music.” (To quote a friend of mine, “Christian” is not an adjective.)
I highly recommend this album. “Although its journey to arrival has been one of the longest in recent memory, as it turns out, Mute Math was well worth the wait,” (Relevant).
