Blog: Chickens Don't Clap!

HEALTH , gritty affiliates of L.A.'s The Smell , make music that sounds like the soundtrack to an apocalypse. Their new record no doubt plunges deep into the darker elements of their sound, but also finds HEALTH employing stronger melodies, ghostly layers of vocal harmonies, and more dynamic songwriting. Buzzsaw guitars rip across dense drum gallops and piercing noisescapes. Hooks seem to come only in the form of screeching feedback and fractured glitched-out electronic loops. Abrasive waves of sound become so crushing in moments that you can almost see the earth opening up to swallow cities, rivers [...]

• HEALTH - Die Slow
• HEALTH - We Are Water