Mutemath (album)

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Mutemath
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 19, 2006
Recorded2005 Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Alternative rock, post-rock [1]
Length57:23
Label Teleprompt, Warner Bros.
Producer Mutemath, Tedd T
Mutemath chronology
Reset EP
(2004)
Mutemath
(2006)
Live at the El Rey
(2006)
Singles from Mutemath
  1. "Typical"
    Released: April 10, 2007
  2. "Control"
    Released: January 15, 2008
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Mutemath is the first full-length album by Mutemath, independently released by Teleprompt (formed in 2004 with production/management partners Tedd Tjornhom and Kevin Kookogey). The album was initially packaged in a jewel case and was sold exclusively at concert dates on their 2006 album tour. The release date was January 19, the first date of the tour.

Contents

Near the beginning of February 2006, the album was added to the Teleprompt Records online store, and was from then on sold in digipak form, both online and at concerts. According to Mutemath's management, Mutemath sold nearly 10,000 copies in the first month of its release, selling almost 100 copies per day via their website. [7]

The album was also released as a two-disc vinyl record in May 2006.

On September 26, 2006, the album was re-released on Warner Bros. Records, featuring additional tracks from Reset . A limited-edition live EP was included with the first 25,000 copies. The album debuted on Billboard's Top Heatseekers Chart at No. 17. It reappeared on the same chart almost a year later at No. 28 on August 4, 2007, while the first radio single "Typical" debuted at No. 39 on Billboard's US Modern Rock Chart the same week. [8] The album has sold over 100,000 copies since its original release.

The second single from Mutemath, "Control", was released to radio on January 15, 2008. [9]

Releases

Teleprompt version

(All songs written by Paul Meany except where noted)

  1. "Collapse" – 1:12
  2. "Typical" – 4:12
  3. "After We Have Left Our Homes" – 1:14
  4. "Chaos" (Mute Math, Adam LaClave) – 4:54
  5. "Noticed" – 4:25
  6. "Without It" (Mute Math, Adam LaClave) – 4:57
  7. "Polite" – 1:22
  8. "Stare at the Sun" – 4:33
  9. "Obsolete" – 4:32
  10. "Break the Same" – 7:22
  11. "You Are Mine" (Mute Math, Dave Rumsey) – 6:08
  12. "Picture" – 5:21
  13. "Stall Out" – 7:05

Warner Bros. version

  1. "Collapse" – 1:13
  2. "Typical" – 4:12
  3. "After We Have Left Our Homes" – 1:14
  4. "Chaos" – 4:54
  5. "Noticed" – 4:29
  6. "Plan B" – 4:46
  7. "Stare at the Sun" – 4:33
  8. "Obsolete" – 4:30
  9. "Break the Same" – 6:00
  10. "You Are Mine" – 4:43
  11. "Control" (Meany, King, LaClave) – 4:39
  12. "Picture" – 5:26
  13. "Stall Out" – 7:10
  14. "Reset" – 5:25

Differences in the WBR re-release

The Warner Bros. version is mostly the same as the original version. There are, however, a few notable differences:

The lyrics omitted from this version (which can be heard in the live recording) are:
The different stars tonight will somehow fade the same
And all the tears we cry tell us we're made the same
And when we fall aside, let's hope we fall in place
We build our different lives, but they all break the same
Break the same
We all do, we all break the same
The song also has an added guitar part in verse 2.

Personnel

Release history

RegionDate
United StatesJanuary 19, 2006
September 26, 2006 (Re-release)
CanadaNovember 6, 2006
United KingdomAugust 27, 2007
GermanyJuly 16, 2007
JapanJanuary 16, 2008

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