health

dudes, i am loving health!

i'm listening to their self-titled debut with a little help from some new bud - orange krush. for the first song and a half i thought i was listening to the new liars i'd picked up several weeks ago. the tribal drumming and the monotone vocal stylings are strongly reminiscent of the liars, although more their second-to-last album, drum's not dead, than their recent release. it was the other elements, like the deerhunter-esque guitar work, the droning electronics and even classic 80s hip-hop drum programming (track 9!), that motivated some movement off the couch to check out what was playing in the system.

and it was health!

i'll let pitchfork describe what i lack the energy to:

"sprinting through eleven tracks of orchestrated chaos in a breathless half-hour, health mixes the bombastic pound of boredoms, the skewed structures of deerhoof, the tribal thump of liars, and even the synth squirts of black dice and excepter."

to the last one, all bands i've seen and loved in the last year! but what an inspired mix of genres! boredoms - japanese psych-rock, deerhoof - experimental indie rock, liars - experimental indie heavy on percussion, and black dice and excepter - kings of the electro-acoustic noise scene. with the exception of boredoms, all the groups hail from brooklyn. so you think health was just sucking in all the local influences? nah, health's from l.a.

anyway, check it out. interesting, percussive, and engaging.

gotta go - cd just switched to sightings.

also some awesome shit, dudes...