The breaking point

"The members of MUTEMATH had reached their breaking point. Collectively gathered on the front porch of their New Orleans home-studio where they were struggling to record the follow up to their 2006 critically-acclaimed Teleprompt/Warner Bros. debut, the quartet screamed at each other with the full weight of the accumulated frustrations that had escalated from weeks of fighting. To heighten the tension, a lawn mower droning in the background drowned out their voices, inciting them to yell even louder in misguided efforts to be heard.



Finally, drummer Darren King voiced what everyone was thinking, but feared saying out loud: either call it quits or swallow their individual pride and try to write the best songs they ever had. “No one said a word at that point,” recalls vocalist/frontman Paul Meany. “And without comment, apology or agreeing, I just remember all of us walking right back inside, going straight to our instruments, and just starting to play music.” That was the day King, Meany, guitarist Greg Hill, and bassist Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas began to write what would become Armistice."

-- source: http://mutemath.com/info/

Have you ever had a "breaking point" in some sort of band, or for that matter, a relationship? Some time when you had to sit down and think things all the way out, air all the dirty laundry? I'm grateful that MuteMath made it thru this time to get back together to make their sophomore album, Armistice. I'll highlight that in the coming week.

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