Thursday, March 15, 2007

MuteMath @ Gramercy Theatre

After two amazing opening acts, what kind of show would MuteMath have put on for this crowd? Whatever they had to do was done last night. MuteMath plays a kind of experimental rock that sounds a bit like an electronica version of a fusion between The Police and Air.
The band started out with their signature intro of “Collapse” and “Typical” and completely nailed it. The record track does not even compare to their performance anymore. The audience went nuts. Before they even had time to catch their breath, Darren King had already started battering the beat of Chaos on his drums. By then, utter madness was unleashed. The crowd clapped along to the fast-paced beat of the song.
The best song of the show was probably “Plan B.” Greg Hill started it off with a mind-blowing guitar intro, King backed it up with his powerful beats and Roy Mitchell-Cardenas, bass, just sent the song on an express ride to “you can’t top it”-ville.
After Mitchell-Cardenas and King synchronized a beat for “Obsolete,” Paul Meany said, “ The next song is called control and I’m gonna need a lot of voices for this one.” The moshpit totally agreed and by the end of the song, Meany turned the microphone over to the crowd singing, “It’s such a beautiful surrender.” Before they left the stage, the band preformed a version of “Reset,” which was quite frankly out of this world.
After the encore, the band played three last songs that ended in an instrumental euphoria, and King’s set scattered all over the stage.

Set List:
Collapse
Typical
Chaos
Picture
Voice
Plan B
Stare At The Sun
Obsolete
Control
You Are Mine
Noticed
Break The Same
Reset
(Encore)
Sooner
Without It
Ok

Typical :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqiVIgiN8zo

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