HEALTH
Sat 19 Apr 2008
Saturday’s Coffee
No amount of nature’s nectar
can wake one as much as good HEALTH
Some people take their HEALTH too seriosly. The “extremely pleasant noise” band (as Vice put it) is not ‘going disco’; their forthcoming sophomore album just so happens to be named HEALTH/DISCO.
In keeping//with that forward///slash/trend,//HEALTH//have been previously//described as/encompassing////ethereal chanting/screeching noise/gauzy atmosphere/, and is most easily comparable to Liars, the most brutal of Animal Collective’s work, and Black Dice (note: the latter Black Dice period, according to Dave Clifford from Fanatic Promotions). I think they just sound like a big rock falling into the ocean and hitting a few hundred squids along the way down to the murky ocean floor, where deep sea trawlers have devasted the population and it’s like the apocalypse, or something.
HEALTH//DISCO, to be released on May 13, is a collection of remixes – a first, for the band. In an open letter to fans, they said: “This is not your typical remix album. Every artist on the record was hand-selected and contacted by us with the hope of combining our sounds and musical ideas with those of electronic artists we admire, several of them doing remixes for the first time. It is not about market saturation or crossover appeal. It is purely about the music, and we are proud of it. This is an album, and meant to be listened to as one. The goal of this record is not only to present all these songs at once, but also to ensure that they are not forgotten in the constantly updating, content hungry internet music world.” Here, here.
And in keeping with that tradition of continuous celebration, allow me to once again extend my unfaltering, everlasting love for Crystal Castles. Their fucked up beats drive most of my days, and I couldn’t be happier for it. Thanks to them I became aware of HEALTH, and seeing the two collaborate together and then go on to do a massively successful tour of the states recently is just all too awesome. Listen to the tracks below (they’re from their first album), if that coffee isn’t quite giving you the kick you need. Though they’re fairly slow and sombre in pace, they are unashamedly jarring and will kick your hangover out of your head, I swear!
HEALTH– Crimewave (Crystal Castles remix): MP3
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[3] Comments
July 17th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
“I think they just sound like a big rock falling into the ocean and hitting a few hundred squids along the way down to the murky ocean floor, where deep sea trawlers have devasted the population and it’s like the apocalypse, or something.”
This is a most annoying way to describe what a band sound like.
You’d have done better to just leave it at relating the band to other bands. Or maybe even a sound that we’ve all heard before.
Connect to your target auidence, yeah? Surely none of the readers have witnessed a big rock splashing, murdering squid and settling at the bottom of our devestated seabeds. Besides if we recorded this dramatic event I’m certain it’d just sound like splashes, bubbles and then a big boom. What an awful way to sell health.
Other than that great name dropping skills (vice, ac, liars etc)
Way to pull in our, “omg cute cool wow i love those guys!” indie kids.
Bravo.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Look Ash, I’m not gonna publicly declare that you obviously have no friends or anything, but if you haven’t heard a big rock falling into the ocean and hitting a few hundred squids along the way down to the murky ocean floor, where deep sea trawlers have devasted the population… you seriously need to get out more.
Have you ever stopped to think about why you haven’t seen a squid recently? IT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE ALL DEAD FROM THE GIANT ROCKS FALLING INTO THE OCEAN, MAN. Hundreds at a time too, pal. HUNDREDS.
Next time you criticise someone’s ability to craft a simile, consider whether it’s their lack of literary skill or your apparent fear of the outside world that’s behind the criticism.
July 20th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Awh thanks Joe. Your style of insulting is to die for. I’m in total awe of you, my little hypocrite. My eyes have gone green! Shock horror, my skin is hulk tinged too!
I have a proposition for you..
Let us insult the world together. With my ignorance and lack of empathy and your sarcasm we could piss off maybe the entire world.
Seriously, I’m very bored of selling disturbed and joe bonamassa cds, I see a new job ahead of me. And you too Joey Broey.
Wanker one and wanker two. People will pay us not to cyber-harm them.
Let’s get to it.