Mutemath draws heavily from influences in 1960s and 1970s soul, psychedelic rock, and jam band styles, utilizing vintage guitars and amplifiers as well as Rhodes keyboards, synthesizers, and other electronic instruments such as the keytar.

Mutemath started in 2002 as a long-distance collaboration between Paul Meany in New Orleans, Louisiana and Darren King in Springfield, Missouri.

Fairly impressed with his efforts, Meany contacted King and asked if he could mess with the demos a bit, adding some ideas of his own.

In February 2002, King moved to New Orleans to work closer with Meany in hopes to at least turn their efforts into some kind of side-project.

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.

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.

The trio continued to work on demos with Tedd T for a possible EP while playing shows on the side with different bass players experimenting with the idea of eventually becoming a four-piece.

They began touring to promote the release while using popular social networking sites like MySpace to spread word of the group.

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.

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.

Mutemath landed on the covers of Billboard and Pollstar[2] being featured in Alternative Press,[3] Paste,[4] and Spin[5] as well as on the MTV News program 'You Hear It First'.

[8] 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.

Flesh And Bones Electric Fun, an exclusive live DVD was released on March 20, 2007 with an accompanying 43-city North American tour that ran through the first of May.

The band also received some unexpected publicity on American Idol when contestant Chris Sligh sang "Typical" on the show's Top 24 episode.

As of late June, the single started receiving major airplay in Modern Rock quickly rising up the Mediabase Alternative chart jumping from No.

On November 12, 2007, Atlantic Records announced that the band would join Alanis Morissette on Matchbox Twenty's Exile in America Tour, which kicked off in Hollywood, Florida, on January 25, 2008, and ran through mid-March.

The group performed "Spotlight" for the first time on The Tonight Show on January 15, 2009, featuring guest appearances from LaClave and Allen from Club of the Sons and Jeremy Larson, all of whom have worked on the upcoming album.

The band had written about 16 songs in the three years spent on the road touring and had expected to cut the list to 10 after settling down to record in their New Orleans home studio.

[25][non-primary source needed] On January 14, 2009, King said in an interview that after a break for the holidays, they would "get back to recording in hopes of having everything done in March so that the album can come out in August.

The band began writing and recording material for their third album in the middle of 2010, shortly after completing their spring tour in support of 30 Seconds to Mars.

Snippets of "Cavalries", "One More", "Equals", "Prytania", "Walking Paranoia" and "Odd Soul" were released on one of the band's YouTube channels.

[33][34] On July 29, MuteMath released their VIP tour package for presale on their official site, giving away the name of their first single, "Blood Pressure", available August 8.

[35] On August 10, 2011, Todd Gummerman announced on his blog that he was officially replacing Greg Hill as the band's guitar player.

When asked about what kind of influences and sounds the band has in mind for the future potential album release, Mitchell-Cárdenas stated, "Anything is fair play for us, as long as we can pull it off convincingly.

"[38][non-primary source needed] On September 25, 2013, Darren King posted a vine of a sample of a new song the band was working on.

[39] This was followed on November 9 when King posted a short clip of Gummerman and what appears to be Mitchell-Cárdenas at work in the process of writing new material.

[42][non-primary source needed][43] After completing the tour with Twenty One Pilots, the band announced their first remix album Changes.

[48][non-primary source needed] On August 8, 2017, Paul Meany announced that Darren King left the band and would not be accompanying Mutemath on the Play Dead Live Tour.