And for my next hot pick, ladies and gentlemen, the Mute Math with their creatively strong video for Typical. A la OK Go, they’ve done a bit of the old ultra choreograph.
The Brothers Warner tried to put the kibosh on embedding this video but you can’t stop the signal. Talk hard, all that.
Boom, ya creeps!
I’m an NPR/Podcast elitist so I’m not sure how far afield this got. Like, did it get a lot of MTV play? Do they still play videos? Or did it get a lot of air play? I don’t know. I saw the video for the first time back in ’07 and sort of wrote them off a little bit for reasons I don’t fully understand. This isn’t really what I consider my kind of music maybe? The screaming at the end I have a hard time abiding by under any circumstance. I seriously appreciated the video though and was surprised to find echoes of the song playing in my head for weeks after. So I picked up the album. For the single.
I’m a little bit broken in that way. Can’t stand having singles laying around on the hard drive. The rest of the album can be terrible, I must have it. Even in the modern age of the digital download where every niche is served. And so it was written with the Mute Maths. Except, what? The whole album is phenomenal? Yes. I queued up this disc for a 5k run a year or two ago and it was powerful stuff. Some might say too powerful. I couldn’t keep up.
Oh, a clever individual has reversed the video and given us the straight dope.
I was going to share another song in the more Typical fashion but I just can’t decide which one to offer. Ironic that I share a single cut when I myself hate single cuts. Seems less shady that way? Err, I guess I’ll share this one.
So here we are, I’m still listening to this album on a fairly regular basis. Today in fact. The screamy bits I even understand and appreciate creatively. It puts me in the mood to just push through. Which I should be doing now. The full album is here. Or here.