why not? live a little
― vadx, Friday, 28 December 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
or not I suppose
― vadx, Friday, 28 December 2007 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I doesn't sound anything like Ex-Models, it sounds a tiny bit like Liars, and only sounds like Boredoms at first. It sounds more like This Heat than anything else I think. Also it is fun. And if you dance to it you have to know when to stop dancing. This is always an important skill however.
― I know, right?, Monday, 31 December 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
So stop whinging.
― I know, right?, Monday, 31 December 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
And the "It just sounds like (x) mixed with (y)" is such a boring, useless criticism.
― I know, right?, Monday, 31 December 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
haha this thread.
the album's not bad. pretty good drumming. crystal castles remix is better than anything on it though.
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
yep
― cutty, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
//M\\
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
They're playing Primavera Sound. This is a reason to go. No Age and Chromatics are also and they are my favourites of new things from last year well chromatics arent new but whatevs
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
whatevs
― cutty, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess you haven't heard Ex Models, I know, right?.
― brightscreamer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Love the album, even if it seems to flag halfway through. Looking forward to seeing these guys next month.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't like Ex Models, that guys voice annoys me and they try too hard to be jerky
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
btw they have a new single and it sounds kinda like Linkin Park at first and then really pretty. I am v. excited about new album, I hope they go all Peter Gabriel and self title it.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 10 April 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
am v. excited for this, wish it would leak so I could listen on my ipod.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 11 April 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not sure which single sounds like Linkin Park, but this new new one - "Die Slow" - is pretty great. There's some serious MBV-aping happening in it, but it's very pretty.
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
meant die slow
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
the new single is kick ass. not really sure about the linkin park comparison, but it is definitely a heavier sound for them.
― borntohula, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Shit, I need to listen to more Linkin Park
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
most ppl do
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
heads up release for get color = Sep 8th hopefully leak will come a lot sooner.
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Leaked!
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Saturday, 8 August 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
And . . . ?
Are they really morphing toward a more MBV-type sound? Seems odd for this band (tho preferable to morphing toward a more Linkin Park-type sound).
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 8 August 2009 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Not really reminding me of MBV, though I get where ppl are coming from on that front. To me the swirls of white noise on Loveless sound really glacial and synthetic and sugary, whereas this is a lot sparser and warmer sounding, still think the synths sound like Numb/Encore, like REALLY like Linkin Park, but the rest of it sounds a lot like the outros of a couple of Super Æ tracks, I got a lot of time for this guy's lady vox also. Still digesting tho lol brb, so far pretty awesome tho!
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Sunday, 9 August 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Kinda realised that I can listen to this whole album without realising how fast time has gone by but not remember anything either, not sure if that is good or not
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Thursday, 13 August 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
it does all blend together, but so far i think it's a good thing. there are points throughout that really get my attention, and the more i listen to this album, the more i come across.
― borntohula, Friday, 14 August 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is a lot of me shouting into the void in reality isn't it?
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Friday, 14 August 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
lol. No; I'm curious about the new disc. Not anxious to hear Health sounding more like Linkin Park, but I'm willing to give it a try.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 August 2009 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Single Die Slow is pretty stand out, maybe they're taking a leaf out of Black Dice's books and trying to sound a bit Big Beat, but this does sound like it's MBV trying to jack Setting Sun. It's all very floaty yet insistent and ends up with a sound palette that is a bit like Hybrid Theory played off a third generation tape copy. Really the Linkin Park thing is me trying to get at the fact that this sounds a lot less like the hipster friendly references that will get lobbed at it, because unlike the last one, the Boredoms copping only feels residual, the MBV thing is only true inasmuch as it's got a lot off static and white noise in the mix, Liars a little maybe, but really they sound a bit like a band that would be playing in the background of the bronx. In fact, what JAMC were to the Ronnettes, these guys are to a million nobody cared 90's alternative bands and really I keep thinking of this song Swallow by nearly rans Skindive (srsly give this song a listen I used to be completely in love with it and hadn't thought of it until Nice Girls came on and brought the whole thing flooding back):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQSNXQ1rYoA
If that's not selling it for you, and I'll admit I wasn't really trying very hard, Death + sounds a bit like This Heat being fronted by Bilinda butcher, it's got that same lopsided industrial take on Kraut, but it's aerated, feminine and gauzy. In fact if this is the direction they're moving in I'll be very happy, that is, spazzed out post-punk minimalism by way of 90's pussy goth.
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Saturday, 15 August 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
in the background of the bronx*
meant to say The Bronze, as in Buffy
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Saturday, 15 August 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
also ex models are kinda better than i once gave them credit for on this thread
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Saturday, 15 August 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm really digging this song, not a fan of this video however:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWZxThGh5wQ
― Bee OK, Monday, 5 October 2009 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
weird that that video really highlights their industrialness, rather than their hipsterness.
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 5 October 2009 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
also it's ugly.
ugly video (most are, it seems) but the song gets better every time I listen
― Dan S, Monday, 5 October 2009 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link
am i the only person who gets how awesome this band are?
― plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
no! they ARE awesome. i am currently listening to get color while drinking orangina (made exclusively from the vagina of the orange). excellent combo.
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't spent much time with it yet, but there's so much life and energy in the new disc.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 24 November 2009 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Get Color has jumped onto my year's top-10 after two listens, thanks to mentions on the P4 and PopMatters polls. The influence of Wire is all over this: the guitar sounds (are those even guitars) are lifted off the Read & Burn EPs, the vocal presence and melodies is Colin Newman, there's a song that could have fit on The Ideal Copy, and the most audible difference is that HEALTH's (that's how they want is capitalized, it seems) has a hot-shit drummer, whereas Gotobed shrank from light.
More people should here this before 2009 is consigned to the history books.
― Biodegradable (Derelict), Monday, 14 December 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
hear even.
you're wrong, gotobed is a great drummer
mostly otm re this album tho. i also am picking up a this heat vibe, especially on the last track
― uptown churl, Monday, 14 December 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Not saying Gotobed was bad, he was just more motorik and less flamboyant. He was content to be the canvas.
― Biodegradable (Derelict), Monday, 14 December 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
u guys r making me optimistic that this is gonna do well out of the end of lists cos it didn't get the level of love it deserved imo
― plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 14 December 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Hell, I even like the video. No one comes to my Dionysian blood wearing Prada.
― Biodegradable (Derelict), Monday, 14 December 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ blood orgies
― Biodegradable (Derelict), Monday, 14 December 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
they have some new remix album, i think they think this is their thing bc of the crystal castles. i dont really care that much but this new track USA BOYS is even more not-boredomesy
http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/HEALTH%20-%20USA%20BOYS.mp3
― plax (ico), Friday, 16 April 2010 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
that song kinda reminds me of a slowed-down Fuck Buttons. I like it
― dmr, Sunday, 25 April 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Somewhat bizarrely, they are soundtracking the videogame Max Payne 3, with a soundtrack album released 15 May:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPc9LhKA5C4
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
haven't listened to it yet, but am interested. i'm not a huge video game player, but i'd be interested in hearing how their music worked within the context of the game.
when i saw that they were doing this it reminded me of the linkin park discussion that happened upthread.
― borntohula, Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Only "Tears", which appears in the promo video, is really like their prior work. The soundtrack album is otherwise instrumental, with their excellent drummer playing Brazilian (as is the game's setting) percussion at the forefront.
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 4 June 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3_dedjucgM&feature=youtu.be
― nxd, Friday, 24 April 2015 10:25 (eight years ago) link
new album is pretty good. huge step toward pop accessibility IMO
― borntohula, Saturday, 1 August 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/29/425893138/first-listen-health-death-magic
― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
Not much difference with Get Color on the pop accessibility front, the most notable change to my ears are the drums are pushed up in the mix, and way more aggressive on around half the tracks.
― Planned adolescence (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
this is pretty cheesy
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 August 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
i really dug the max payne 3 soundtrack
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 August 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
I like this album and need to listen to that soundtrack :)
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 7 August 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
LIFE is a good direction :)
― nxd, Sunday, 9 August 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link
cheesiness works well with them vocals imo
LIFE is so incredible! Like an emo teen pop song, covered by an industrial band.
I don't know what I want / know that I don't / know what I want I don't know what I want / know that I don't / know what I want No nobody knows / nobody does / nobody knowsNo nobody knows / nobody does / nobody knows
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Adore this album.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 October 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
Although it does sound like Beach House's Bloom plus power saws.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 October 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
really not digging the mix on this. i could def get behind an even more tuneful/vox-focused HEALTH, but it feels like every time they want to bring something noisier into it there's no no punch. maybe i have a bad rip idk, that would be a pleasant surprise.
― franklin, Monday, 19 October 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
maybe a bad rip? the noisy bits seems punchy enough on the vinyl pressing. the vocals are high in the mix but it's meant to be a pop record i reckon.
lol @ beach house plus power saws. i would pay good money to see that show.
― davey, Monday, 19 October 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link
Surprised that this isn't a bigger deal than it is.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
I feel vindicated in liking it if you're on my side, Tim!
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
Well I am a corny fuxx so
― Tim F, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, this is album I come back to a lot.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
His vocals oscillate somehow between New Order and Placebo.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 10:00 (eight years ago) link
Liking the music but the fey vocals really grate
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 22 October 2015 09:19 (eight years ago) link
New album seems pretty solid, not hugely different from the last one, maybe a bit heavier.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 9 February 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
Vol 4 doing it for me right now. Up to this point I'd only listened to SLAVES OF FEAR a million times, but the rest of the album is solid.
I have a subwoofer in my living room but not my kitchen, and out of all the music I've listened to it - including a LOT of dance music - this is the album that showed the biggest quality difference with/without a sub.
― lukas, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
anyone else still following HEALTH? missed lukas's previous revive here
the ongoing remix/collaboration stuff scratches an itch I didn't know I had a few years ago
― mh, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:59 (two years ago) link
new album RAT WARS out today, sounding good so far
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 8 December 2023 22:16 (four months ago) link