Claude says:Paul Meany and Darren King built Mutemath out of sample-based electronica demos sent back and forth between New Orleans and Missouri, eventually recruiting a guitarist and shaping their sound with vintage Rhodes, synths, and influences from the Police to Björk. You grabbed onto this in the summer of 2009 after a few scattered plays the year before, leaning hardest on "Without It," "Break the Same," and "Chaos." It burned bright for a year or so and then mostly faded, with just the odd revisit after 2010.