The band returned to the road in early 2007 with opening dates for The Fray and Wolfmother in various cities and a brief headlining tour in Europe. The album debuted at No. 17 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. The fully remastered album features reworked tracks from their Reset EP and a bonus limited-edition live EP. WBR re-released the band's debut album Mutemath on September 26, 2006. Records, Teleprompt settled litigation out of court in August 2006 with a re-negotiated contract with Warner. The group continued to tour vigorously, playing shows to crowds of thousands at festivals such as Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Van's Warped Tour, V Festival, CMJ Music Marathon in New York City, and Voodoo Music Experience in their hometown of New Orleans.Īfter months of legal wrangling with parent label Warner Bros. Mutemath landed on the covers of Billboard and Pollstar being featured in Alternative Press, Paste, and Spin as well as on the MTV News program 'You Hear It First'. The special edition of the album was only available as a "tour-only" release until it hit the Internet on Teleprompt's online store, selling more than 10,000 copies in its first month. (see Teleprompt Controversy for more details). So by late 2005, Teleprompt filed suit against Warner Music requesting Mutemath to be released from their contract while Teleprompt would proceed to promote and sell Mutemath's self-titled debut on its own. It was initially independently released in response to Warner Music Group's indecision on what to do with Mutemath's debut LP. In January 2006, the band set out on a tour in support of their self-titled debut album.
The band sold over 30,000 copies of Reset EP before the album went out of print in 2006. By the end of that year, they joined The Music is Much Too Loud Tour opening for Mae and Circa Survive where they began to chronicle their shows and updated their video blogs on a nightly basis gradually attracting more and more people to the Mutemath ground-swell. As their fan base grew, the band began to see an increasing number of shows sell out by early 2005. They began touring to promote the release while using popular social networking sites like MySpace to spread word of the group. By December 2004, the band finally recruited bass player Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas to become the official fourth member. Within a couple months Teleprompt was able to put together a developmental-deal with Warner Music, and Mutemath's debut Reset EP would be released that Fall on Warner's CCM label Word Records in an attempt to capitalize on the group's fan base from Earthsuit. Joining up with Tedd and lawyer/manager Kevin Kookogey, they started an independent label Teleprompt Records. The trio continued to work on demos with Tedd for a possible EP while playing shows on the side with different bass players experimenting with the idea of eventually becoming a four-piece.Īfter months of considering different options for their new venture, the group decided to do things on their own and officially changed their name to "Mutemath". Paul took the early demos to friend and producer Tedd T, who fell in love at first listen. With the addition of more of their collective band influences like The Police and U2 the music began to find a sound of its own. All now living in Southern Louisiana, the three worked on expanding their collection of songs while broadening the sound to a more rock infused hybrid.
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After Meany's band officially broke up by that summer, Darren and Paul moved in together into a house they found in Mandeville, Louisiana where they spent all their time writing new songs and considering how to turn their side-project into a full band.īy 2003, they had recruited guitarist Greg Hill, another Springfield, MO native and longtime friend of Darren's. Calling it "Math", the two explored many of their shared influences ranging from DJ Shadow to Björk, yielding a lot of their earlier works to be more sample based electronica. In February 2002, Darren moved to New Orleans to work closer with Paul in hopes to at least turn their efforts into some kind of side-project. Darren obliged and the two would set in motion a sort of songwriting ping-pong match that would carry on for several months. Fairly impressed with his efforts, Paul contacted Darren and asked if he could mess with the demos a bit, adding some ideas of his own. Occasionally Paul would receive instrumental demo CDs from Darren. The two had known each other from their work together in Meany's previous band Earthsuit. Mutemath started in 2002 as a long-distance collaboration between Paul Meany in New Orleans, Louisiana and Darren King in Springfield, Missouri.
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