Listeners inclined to attribute narrative structure to otherwise chaotically sequenced albums could even consider the debut as bearing a tale of one musical mode's victory over- or surrender to- another: The electro-clubbily titled and (eventually) executed "Glitter Pills" was followed by the lurching (dying?) rock of "Perfect Skin", and then the platter closed with the tribal, clipped-Gregorian funereality of "Lost Time". The resulting sound was skeletal, adrenal, and clangorous. HEALTH's self-titled debut earned them shi i am an ignorant fucktard, please ban meing sobriquets like "Boredoms Jr" and "Diet Liars," yet among what kept the admittedly derivative album interesting was the tension produced by its attempts to artfully reconcile dance/digital elements with rock/noise textures (not to mention its ambient fringes and the occasional blotch of straight-up pop).
I crack up every time I'm getting to see them live and someone wheezes any variation on "I cannot wait to get my fill of.HEALTH!" (How did these guys resist- especially since, like certain fellow Californians Zach Hill and Spencer Seim, they share a love for maniac percussion and Nintendosonics- giving themselves the pseudo-metal moniker Hellth?) It's so undangerous and sub-ironics that it seems to circle back around to being scary, snide, and nihilist. Quote Funniest band name ever (this week only).
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