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Listening to Health is no easy task. These noise rockers have an abstract sort of music that I find isn’t easy to “get”. I think the problem with Health is that they’ve had a good remix album and their first single off Get Color was Die Slow. I thought they were going to move in a different direction e.g. not be as abstract.

Being abstract doesn’t necessarily mean a bad thing, while very interesting, when I just can’t fully grasp most of the songs in it’s entirety, I can’t just force myself to do so. I like a lot of what they do, the drumming and the mixing but again I like the parts more then I like the sum of the parts.

I guess Health sort of finds their satisfaction from not being entirely structured and open for how people interpret their music but again I still feel like people are talking about Health due to their remixes and tracks that don’t leave much to interpretation. Then again, who am I to say that Health should be making music to be more popular.

I really don’t have much to say as some stuff works for me, some stuff doesn’t. It’s a difficult listen that doesn’t appeal to everyone. I find myself struggling after many listens and I’m at the stage where I ultimately have to throw up my hands and say I give up. I’m down if they do another remix album but alas personally I can’t listen to their records. Maybe it’s the stark contrast between singing and the music? Maybe it’s because they come all math-rocky and my brain just explodes when listening to asymmetric time signatures for too long. I give up trying to figure it out.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5
This score probably has more to do with personal issues on this album. It could and should probably rate higher but when something doesn’t work for you, I couldn’t act as if I liked it. Sometimes I like the songs then I listen to it again and I don’t…

It’s one of those where I feel like it should be good but my brain rejects it and I move on and skip the tracks. Meh what else am I supposed to do – force myself or pretend to like it? The only song I find that I can listen to without a headache is Die Slow which sounds like it’s tempered and actually out of place on this album.

In Violet by Health
Die Slow by Health

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