Mutemath had ‘em bouncing around at the Green stage on Friday afternoon, coming on strong with a driving first song, “Set It On Fire” – well at least that was the refrain – and some monster drumming courtesy of Darren King.

The New Orleans natives just set to pounding out some serious tunes with driving crunchy guitar provided by Gregg Hill, steady workman bass lines from Roy Mitchell-Cardenas, keyboards all over the place from leader Paul Meary (with help at time from Hill), and again, King’s powerhouse small kit monster drumming.

Song four saw  Meary and the Hill both on some heavy synth duties, and bass player Mitchell-Cardenas joining King on the kit bashing the shit outta the toms.

And, yes,  there is some keytar more than involved in the Mutemath set, making it easy for Meary to shuffle around guitar style around while playing.

I must have missed something the past few years because all the Japanese people around me seemed to know all the songs, so perhaps I’m just not that cool anymore. Even if they didn’t know the songs, the crowd swelled about halfway through to almost double the size and people started going off. I’m sure they made 10,000 new friends on Facebook today. And it’s not hard to see why. With some beautiful keyboard melodies between the driving rock progressions – sort of an American cross between U2 and Snow Patrol – and an energetic stage presence, they are an easy band to “Like”.

Mutemath on Green Stage