After an evening of sudoku, tea and silliness I returned to my computer lastnight/this morning and started browsing the web to try and keep up with the flood of new music that duds was speaking of in a blog about the ye olde fave Spoon. Lately I have found the time when I feel the most creative and able to absorb new things is a night. During my delirium ("the new drunk"; cited duds) induced search I opened a link in a new tab called The Hypertonics

Fumbling over the links I found a page with all their mp3s

Listening to pretty much all their tracks I had a fave: "moments we dont allow"

Their music was a cool discovery as their site has pretty much everything that their tunes involve ie: guitar tabs, lyrics, pics, vids, tons of stimulus. They make comments on their native country, The States, life, love all the standard stuff, but I found that they put it togther without coming across as cliche or sounding like a majority of bands within the same genre. Now I come to the point where I put these guys into a genre:.......in reading a few of their comments on the site I realised that classification is not something that they are looking for. Just appreciation of the music:

"You don't "target certain age groups". (If somebody was targeting me, I would feel the need to defend myself. I wouldn't buy their product, I'd shoot them in self-defense.)"

"So this site is a vehicle for breaking that antagonism up. The artist and the listener aren't on opposite sides of the baricade. They aren't opponents or enemies. The battle between "Getting As Much Money For A CD" and "Paying As Little As Possible" is bad for art, and it's nonsense created so some third party can make money. How's about the artists and the listeners collude and collaborate and shove off the middlemen all together?"

Pretty cool I think. Enjoy