Instead of finding a room where the only thing you can hear is your heartbeat, HEALTH recorded their debut LP in one of their favorite places. The Smell is an all ages music venue in downtown Los Angeles. It is open and brick and dirty and dark, but when you sing a church hymnal or hit a drum as hard as you can, the sound is beautiful. They also went out and found equipment born at the same time as The Smell. Mostly ribbon microphones designed by the BBC for 1930's radio broadcasts - things George Martin l   [ read more ]

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HEALTH are the new frontier of noise rock. Formed in 2005, HEALTH self-recorded their debut album over the course of nine months at Los Angeles D.I.Y. venue The Smell, birthing an urgent and extraordinary album which seethed with ghostly, epic pop and spurts of chaotic noise. Their shows grew wild, kids danced and moshed, blogs freaked out, critics raved, and everyone wondered how in God's name HEALTH was going to follow it up. While the anticipation grew, HEALTH released a critically-acclaimed remix record   [ read more ]

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Health is real American music. The weird, old music of drunken colonists, steel bit confederates, self-educated gentleman slaves and whiskey-stained maps followed upside-down. As long as parts of America remain wild this music will be around and bands like Health will play it. The germ of Health formed when Jonathan Moore, a young song-writer from Maryland, split from the green, green campus of Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. After a month or two of study and academia, Moore packed up his acoustic guita   [ read more ]

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