I laughed to myself before I googled "health die slow"; thinking that it would return all kinds of medical mumbo back at me. To my surprise though, the first couple of pages at least, were what I was looking for: LA's experimental noise rock band Health (though the next few pages started describing Amy Winehouse's decline).
They're back with their first release since their incredible Disco remix album and their astonishing eponymous debut album, 'Die Slow', with it's brilliant groaning guitars and drums that pound inevitably forward.
Jacob Duzsik's layered vocals are like a transparent veil of chiffon over the morphing and shifting guitars, with icicles of noise and effects shimmering in and out to accompany the stalking drumbeat. 'Die Slow' has a raw finish; and despite it's matrix-esque qualities, it's also kinda primal. Artfully executed and flawlessly put together, 'Die Slow' is a slayer.
The Pictureplane remix is gorgeous, lush and almost a little bit tropical. If I ever had to describe in music what travelling through a wormhole in a dream at warp speed with a stomping house beat driving felt like to me, this track would do that very neatly.
