So I guess my background is less K-Love programming and something a little different than the mainstream. Which is why I liked Mute Math.

After doing some research, it seems some members of Mute Math where in a Christian band called Earthsuit but that band fell apart and Mute Math was formed. When their record label tried to put them in a Christian music format or market, the band objected and sued.

I can see the band's side: if you get pegged as a Christian band, then that limits you to only one national radio network and only selected venues for your shows. (Yes, a few artists can cross over, like Amy Grant, but only a handful can do it.) Says Paul Meany, the lead singer, who used to be the music director at his church:

"We've always conditioned our show universally, and (we're) just trying to speak to human beings; (we're) not really conditioning it down to Christians, and that's what the Christian music industry does. It's for a certain sect of people. I don't have anything against that--I'm one of them--but I don't want to taper it just for that," said Meany.

But somehow you're conditioned to think no matter what you're going to do, there will be a Christian adjective in front of it. If you're gonna build houses, by God, you're gonna build Christian houses. If you're a musician, there is no other choice: You're gonna make Christian music. That's what you're gonna do. You're gonna sign to a Christian record company. You're gonna print up Christian T-shirts, whatever

Meany talks further:

“The vision of the band, and everything else, is not getting caught up in religion,” Hill said. “To me, religion is getting stuck on one thing. There’s not much freedom in religion. You’re bound to your rituals and your routines that you walk through every day. It is important to have those, but it’s also important to grow, because if you’re not moving forward, you’re standing still and then moving backward.”

Here's the crux of the matter: Labels don't matter. It doesn't matter whether your songs get played on K-Love or whatever station. What matters is what you have to say.

With that said, there's only one Mute Math song that I don't think is going down the right track. Here's a sample from "Electrify":

I'm in love with this girl
That’s got my head electrified
And I hope that someday she might go too far, go too far
Cause all I can think about is me and her electrified
I hope that someday she might take me home and lose control