Mutemath Band • Page 10

Good timing as I’m listening to Armistice at this exact moment.

Odd Soul is such a fun album, going full blues and psychedelic guitar wise was a great pivot after Armistice, which I like but do still find to be a bit whelming coming after S/T.

 

Yeah, it's gotta be self titled and Odd Soul as top two for me

 

S/T
Odd Soul
VITS
Reset
Vitals
Play Dead
Armistice

i do love them all though

 

S/T
Reset
Odd Soul
Play Dead
Vitals
Armistice

 

Armistice last is blowing my mind

 

i do love Armistice, but it doesn't quite grab me the way the other records do.

 

I recently went back and listened to their whole discography and realized that I don't think I ever gave Odd Soul a proper chance / it's due.

the person from the other most significant relationship in my life before I was married introduced me to them right around the time Armistice came out, and I got super into them with that album, and I remember being a little disappointed in Odd Soul when it came out. I didn't hate it or think it was bad, but I remember feeling a bit let down. It is an absolutely phenomenal album. Today I would probably put it above Armistice if I'm being objective / trying to keep nostalgia out of things.

 

Odd Soul
Armistice
Vitals
Play Dead
S/T

 

S/T last is blowing my mind

 

Honestly I think mine are in order of release.

But I adore all 5.

S/T (in my top 10 of all time)
Armistice
Odd Soul
Vitals
Play Dead

I don’t pray anymore except nightly to ask for a mutemath reunion. We lost them too soon.

 

Move Odd Soul on top and this is mine. I had tickets to see them back in Dallas at a small club years ago and couldn't go. Still one of my all time concert regrets.

 

The Odd Soul Introduction tour at Grog Shop in Cleveland is one of my all time favorite shows. Just unparalleled.

 

they performed a free show in my college town a little before the release of Vitals. one of the best shows i've ever seen.

 

The Armistice tour with As Tall As Lions makes my brain hurt thinking about it lol

 

The free show they gave my college was an all timer. Think it was one of the last ones with Greg as well

 

I try not to live with regrets, but not taking my chance to see Mutemath in college was a big F.

 

Ranking is so hard. Each album has unique style and great high points.

I think I'd go:

S/T
Armistice (except Electrify that song annoys me haha)
Play Dead
Odd Soul
Vitals

 

Electrify is wonderful

 

I saw them in a small tent at Bonnaroo 06 and it was one of the best shows of the weekend.

 

hard to pick a least favorite, they’re all great. maybe I’d put it over Play Dead, idk?

the highs of Armistice (Clipping, Burden) and Vitals (Used To, Light Up; Changes if I cheat and lump it in with that era) are the highest for me, Odd Soul is their most technically impressive album front to back, and I could go either way on how to order the other two also very good albums

 

surprised nobody is ranking Voice in the Silence (the 8 track version). i know that one was just Paul, but it's some of their best work

 

Isn't it a compilation? I never fully saw it as an album, I haven't revisited it much as well so I need to fix that

 

I think Play Dead is my favorite because it’s the only one I was a fan for when it came out

 

it's an EP, but the version on streaming only has 4 tracks. the vinyl release has 8 - so i've always treated it like a mini-album. one of the 4 extra tracks, Distance, became its own EP last year, but as a whole body of work, it's a little over half an hour long, and has some of their best songs on it. i think Paul made it after the band's dissolution to see if he could still make music under the Mutemath name, and went and performed the vast majority of it himself, even reworking old B-sides like Work of Art. it feels more like a proper release than a compilation in that sense.

Paul sent the digital masters of the vinyl bonus tracks to those who preordered as a Christmas gift several years ago, so if anyone wants to hear the whole thing, PM me.

 

Voices is sick