They call their sound "Dancethink Music." Some might call it high-brow guiltypleasure dance music. At the end of the day, it,s hard to find a genre to apply to a band of music degrees shamelessly enamored with catchy hooks, who wield a giant megaphone, shred Van Halen on electrified Irish bagpipes, write 80,s-esque dance-rock anthems in 5/4, and re-sample themselves doing it live - all to create a modern-day musical Frankenstein that will pull even the most self-conscious listener on to the dance floor.

The histrionic vocals and synth-laden rock of How I Became the Bomb resemble other bands of late (The Killers, Spinto Band). HIBTB communicate pride and honesty in themselves and their ideas; the band’s members are a pack of like-minded individuals. Their latest ideas, according to the three EPs released recently for free, include space and robots and prove that scientific preoccupation is not anti-magnetic to stellar beats” -William Hooker, American Songwriter 3/20/09