[[$7 // Edition of 100 // https://hypervigilance.bandcamp.com/album/eat-more-medication-demo-tape ]]
Whenever I see releases such as this I always want to try and figure out what the title means. We're all medicated somehow, aren't we? If you take Tylenol you're medicated on some level. But this music implies something a little bit different and it's the type of medication you would hope it reaches- the psychotics.
On one side of this music are the beats. It's not really electronic in that sense, as the beats are more of a thumping variety. It's the pounding, the breaking... though there is a certain undeniable rhythm to it all. Trapped behind this are vocals sceaming to get out. Through static booms of doom these songs seem to be conflicted amongst themselves.
Equal parts Dana Fowler And The, dreamcrusher and I Like You, Go Home the music of Hyper Vigilance is electronic hardcore on paper but when you see that tag and think Atari Teenage Riot and the like that is really just not how this sounds at all. it's that almost metal backing with a variation on electronica in front of it.
This music paints an image of a man in a straightjacket, locked inside a padded cell. I like to think of The Joker or any number of other criminals in Gotham safely secure in Arkham Asylum. The constant banging of the head against the door echoing through the empty halls reminds us all that we are at home.
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