Robot Roll Call

When I first heard Health I dismissed them as current blog darlings which I would never hear of again; once their debut album was released. This is what happened to the L.A. foursome, however somehow they managed the impossible in this day. They made a follow-up album which not only pushes their sound forward but also takes a huge musical leap. Get Color is a fully formed release with complete ideas unlike their debut which had the stink of happenstance. They still like noise, a lot, but they also have found silence and mood to be important touch stones. When you’re pounding away on tracks like “Severin” it nice to have a break to not only appreciate the silence but to digest the audio attack which your ears have just taken part. Another factor worth mentioning is the length of Get Color, coming in just over half an hour is perfect for an album of this nature. You don’t need 70 mins of noise to get your point across, I tell this to anyone who will listen and somehow musicians still think that if a CD hold 72 minutes then I should make 72 minutes of product. This is an antiquated concept and may go the way of the dodo in this MP3/digital music world since the CD is on life support. With the advent of autumn I cannot think of a new release better suited for the declining day light and brisk mornings than Health’s “Get Color” out now on Lovepump records.