Posts Tagged: Health


25
Oct 09

HEALTH – Get Color, Album Review

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Get Color
Lovepump United
out September 8th

71 /100
Buy it at Insound!
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Listening to HEALTH’s sophomore album, it’s tough not to envision barren landscapes and smoking piles of ruin. Ironically, for an album titled Get Color, the music is painted in blacks and grays – mechanical, repetitive, noisy without remorse. Get Color, like other products of the LA noise rock scene, sounds like machines have taken over the Earth, found some musical record of the humans who used to inhabit this planet, and are now attempting to replicate the melodies and rhythms.

Except that on Get Color, the machines are actually doing a fairly passable job. There are haunting, ethereal hints at humanity – an echoing human voice here, a drumbeat that sounds a little too organic to be programmed there. And that hint that this music isn’t completely made by machines is what makes all the difference. Continue reading →


10
Sep 09

HEALTH – Die Slow (Music Video)

http://www.vimeo.com/6407654

“You don’t need to be 19 to like a band like this. You don’t need to listen to music eight hours a day. You don’t need to narcissistic or shallow. All you need to do is call.” HEALTH end their half fun and trippy half blood plagued music video for “Die Slow” with this message. Then they give a phone number to call and a website to visit.

I have not partaken in the viral advertising enough to check out the phone number, but the website repeats the message at the bottom of the page: “You Will Love Each Other.”

While watching the music video for “Die Slow”, you may be tempted to overanalyze some artsy message out of it. Instead HEALTH is saying that we all need to calm down and just embrace their accessible music, and the music is extremely accessible. “Die Slow” is a fantastic, upbeat, and fun song and the energy in the video only adds to it. Once you get hooked on the song, go get their new LP Get Color which dropped yesterday.

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5
Sep 08

Gossip Girl to release an Indielicious Soundtrack

Gossip Girl
Is it just me, or is Gossip Girl trying to be a lot more like OC? GG’s first season music wasn’t this indie-heavy… oh well, here’s the tracklist for OMFGG — out on Oct. 28th

The Kills – Sour Cherry
The Kooks – Do You Wanna?
Phantom Planet – Do The Panic
The Teenagers – Feeling Better
The Virgins – One Week Of Danger
Nadia Oh – Got Your Number
Crystal Castles/Health – Crimewave
The Republic Tigers – Fight Song
Junkie XL – Cities In Dust
The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
Oppenheimer – Breakfast In NYC
The Pierces – Three Wishes
Albert Hammond Jr – Hard To Live…


4
Aug 08

Monday Has The Beat #29

Monday Has The Beat #29 mp3

PMA–On Location

It’s Monday, so here’s another round of remixes. I’m going to kick things off with some new LAZRtag remixes that have been sitting in my inbox all weekend.

Crystal Castles vs. Health – Crimewave (LAZRtag Harder Remix)
Lil Wayne – Lollipop (LAZRtag Remix)
Sebastien Tellier – Sexual Sportswear (SebastiAn Remix)
Miley Cyrus – See You Again (Pauly Crush Stutter To Think Remix)
The Kills – Cheap And Cheerful (SebastiAn Remix)
The Ting Tings – Thats Not My Name (Kasper Bjorke Remix)
Stevie Wonder – Superstition (Justice JNSTY Remix / Edit)
Justice – DVNO (Robot Koch Rmx)