HEALTH- Glitter Pills Review
The first time I had heard anything of HEALTH was a collaboration with Crystal Castles, (both being experimental, electronic-ish artists) and I was astounded by the merging of the two.
I recently downloaded HEALTH’s latest venture, Get Color, and to be honest, just found the album to be mediocre at best; all the songs sounded like one big track to me, but at the same time I appreciate what the band is doing.
The one song that really sticks out in my mind though is Glitter Pills (not on Get Color.) It’s one of the only songs where you can actually understand what the band is saying, and not to mention that the beat is just really ill.
I had read somewhere that the band purposely tried to keep their lyrics vague on purpose for the listener, so that it was them who could distinguish an attitude and a certain feeling. Personally I don’t think that is the right way to go; it’s the lyrics to most people which connect someone to a song in the first place, so to leave the words to your own song very opaque seems a little lazy and just makes the tracks sound like noise, something the band said they didn’t want to sound like.
Although the lyrics are minimal in Glitter Pills (their mostly just ‘oohing’ and ‘aahing’,) the spurts of it are just plain great, and the echo to their voices is really enthralling.
It’s the passion that really makes HEALTH so interesting, no matter if you think so or not, and their fearlessness to create something so abstract.
