THE RECORDING PROCESS behind Mute Math's "Armistice" was an arduous one, but there was one moment where everything clicked.
Singer and keyboardist Paul Meany was sitting out on the porch of the band's New Orleans home studio talking to two Jehovah's Witnesses while the rest of the group jammed inside.
"All of a sudden I'm listening to the guy talking, and stopped paying attention," Meany recalled. "I do remember hearing this sort of Nickelodeon-on-crack guitar coming through the windows, and the bass and the drums and the whole house was shaking. That was it for me. I'm looking at the girl and I said, 'Man, do you feel that?' And she goes, 'That is a jam.'"
He cut off the Witnesses and went inside to write lyrics to the song.
"I didn't get my soul saved that day, but we definitely made a fan and a great song," he added.
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