Mutes Unveil New Album “…Buried Where You Stand”

Following acclaimed singles Mere Slaughter and Televangelist, Birmingham, UK’s Mutes have now released their most raw and engrossing album to date, …Buried Where You Stand. Recorded almost entirely live as a three-piece at Megatone Studios with engineer Mark Gittins, for their fourth record the band stripped back the lavish technicolor method that defined their most recent albums, 2019’s Pareidolia and 2021’s Dreams of Being Cornered, and instead focused on the unfiltered immediacy found in their early work, whilst further finessing their ambiguous genre-defying sonics. Mutes have honed their ‘post-everything’ sound via their staunch work ethic; always with the end goal of creating an immersive album that flies in the face of the current climate’s ephemeral, single-centric culture.

“Our goal when writing and recording ‘…buried where you stand’ was to capture the essence of our live sound in the most honest manner possible – this meant all tracking in a room together with very little separation between instruments, and minimal overdubs. Our ‘Albini record’, if you will. Thematically, I have always tended to look inwards when writing. It is somewhat of a self-directed, existential manifesto – an attempt to recapture the parts of myself I felt lost; a distillation of the relentless, cacophonic internal monologue that results from juggling infinite choices and then facing bottomless consequences. I have not been inclined to seek lyrical inspiration in our country’s dire socio-political climate when there is so much inherent inadequacy in my own existence to be exorcised. Those themes being spiritual ambivalence, substance abuse and recovery, the human condition, fugue states, the pendulum-swing of living.” (vocalist and lyricist James)