HEALTH

Health – RAT WARS (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:36 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Electronic, Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Loma Vista Recordings

Health are not only making the heaviest, most genre-obliterating music of their career, they’re documenting just how insane it feels to be alive right now. It’s ‘The Downward Spiral’ for people with at least two monitors and a vitamin D deficiency. RAT WARS is a definitive statement on the insanity and the insipidness of contemporary life.

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Health – RAT WARS (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:41:36 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Alternatif et Indé
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Health – DISCO4 :: PART I (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:37 minutes | 437 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Loma Vista Recordings

Noisy types HEALTH have announced details of a collaborative album. ‘DISCO 4:: PART I’ will be released on 16th October, and features their previously-shared tracks with Soccer Mommy, JPEGMAFIA, Xiu Xiu and more – plus new tracks, including one with 100 gecs, and a HEALTH song called ‘CYBERPUNK 2.0.2.0’. “In the past each HEALTH LP has been accompanied by a corresponding remix record,” say the band. “This time, despite being called DISCO 4 in the interest of continuity, we offer you a collection of original collaborations with artists we admire. Also, FUCK 2020.”

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Health – DISCO4 :: PART II (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:20 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Electronic, Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Loma Vista Recordings

HEALTH have announced DISCO4 :: PART II, the follow-up to 2020’s DISCO4 :: PART I. The project will be released on April 8, 2022, via Loma Vista Recordings. The 12-song LP includes their recent collaborations with Nine Inch Nails and Poppy alongside new tracks with Lamb of God, The Body, Backxwash, Perturbator, and others, and closes with a new original HEALTH single, “THESE DAYS 2.0.2.1.”.
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Health – DEATH MAGIC (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:30 minutes | 528 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Loma Vista

As their furious earlier albums and all-caps name suggest, HEALTH don’t do anything in half-measures. On Death Magic, they throw the extremes of their music into even sharper contrast, juxtaposing moments that shred eardrums with ones that caress them. They exploit the tension between negative space and full-bore noise as expertly as ever on “Victim,” while “Men Today” and “Salvia” feel like fragmented flashbacks to the most intense parts of Get Color. However, Death Magic’s super-sweet pop is arguably more shocking than its outbursts, not only because it’s so catchy, but because HEALTH pull it off so well. “Life” is downright mellow, transforming Get Color’s breathy vocals and massive backdrops into a chillwave anthem; “L.A. Looks” adds a dash of poignancy, with Jacob Duzsik sighing “It’s not love but I still want you” over strobing synths and cavernous drums. Indeed, the most remarkable thing about Death Magic is the directness of HEALTH’s words and music. By organizing their previous chaos into widescreen industrial pop, they offer up their hearts – only to smash them. The band revels in heartbreak of epic proportions, using the visceral quality of their music to convey the physical toll of loss on “Courtship II” and mourning what was on “Flesh World (UK)”: “All the bones grew strong before they broke/All the blood runs hot before it’s cold.” Shades of their former collaborators Crystal Castles can be heard here and on bleakly pretty songs such as “Stonefist” and “Drugs Excist,” while “Dark Enough” reaches back farther for inspiration, exploding and reconfiguring Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys into gorgeously gloomy synth-pop. While fans of HEALTH’s previous onslaughts might be disappointed by the preponderance of hooks and emotion on display here, Death Magic presents a 2010s version of HEALTH that fits in with the likes of the Soft Moon and Blanck Mass while delivering their most accessible music to date.

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