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Saw these guys tonight, and it was strange. Oddly the first way I'd describe them is that they are "big on the internet." I was surprised to see a lot of younger kids there. You know, dudes in brown plaid sport coats and sideways colorful baseball caps with bills curved up extremely.

Anyway, they were good live. Some really nice loud furious hanging drone stuff. Machine gun drums. None of the mp3's around sound as good though.

This comes close (towards the end):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alF8HEYYHt4

(edit, oh shit, this video is from CalArts gd it.)

I saw these guys last night in Milwaukee and my jaw was on the floor. Holy fucknuggets.

I had never heard of them before this week, and as they're setting up, a friend turns to me. "So, are you familiar with Health?" "No." "People keep telling me they're totally Boredoms-like, with a little bit of the Liars' last few records."

And then they did exactly that and my jaw hit the floor. Totally pummeling, brain-breaking no-wave. So. Fucking. Rad!

NOT CRAP by a country mile.

first heard about them through here. one post in the tech room about recording drums.

saw the name on an e-bill at a house show. couldn't place where i knew the band from.

saw them: hot damn. killer. rhythm and noise. that's all it'll take to satisfy me if done right.

it was done right.

they are not crap. can't wait to see them in april.

would love to see them live.

the record is killer.

"glitter pills" is catchy noise.

that was what amazed me about them. how noisy it is, but how well orchestrated that noise is.

that damned fly wrote:that was what amazed me about them. how noisy it is, but how well orchestrated that noise is.

Yes! Same here. I love noise bands, but so many of them seem to slack off in that department and structure their compositions by saying, i dunno, "just mash your keyboard for a few minutes and watch me for when we change to stomping on our pedals," or whatever. With Health, it was really apparent that every sound they made was deliberate.

DrAwkward wrote:

that damned fly wrote:that was what amazed me about them. how noisy it is, but how well orchestrated that noise is.

Yes! Same here. I love noise bands, but so many of them seem to slack off in that department and structure their compositions by saying, i dunno, "just mash your keyboard for a few minutes and watch me for when we change to stomping on our pedals," or whatever. With Health, it was really apparent that every sound they made was deliberate.

agreed, and that's generally why i hate noise bands. the lack of composition.

making noise is the easiest part of playing music/owning gear. writing something worth hearing is the hard part.

that damned fly wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:

that damned fly wrote:that was what amazed me about them. how noisy it is, but how well orchestrated that noise is.

Yes! Same here. I love noise bands, but so many of them seem to slack off in that department and structure their compositions by saying, i dunno, "just mash your keyboard for a few minutes and watch me for when we change to stomping on our pedals," or whatever. With Health, it was really apparent that every sound they made was deliberate.

agreed, and that's generally why i hate noise bands. the lack of composition.

making noise is the easiest part of playing music/owning gear. writing something worth hearing is the hard part.

Very true. Writing pop is easy. Writing match rock that is engaging and stimulating like Slint or the Shipping News is hard. Writing good noise is super, ultra fucking hard and well beyond my own personal capability, so I have nothing but tons of respect for those who do it well.

You guys have me salivating so hard over Health that I'm scared I'll actually be disappointed when I hear them.

FuzzBob wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:

that damned fly wrote:that was what amazed me about them. how noisy it is, but how well orchestrated that noise is.

Yes! Same here. I love noise bands, but so many of them seem to slack off in that department and structure their compositions by saying, i dunno, "just mash your keyboard for a few minutes and watch me for when we change to stomping on our pedals," or whatever. With Health, it was really apparent that every sound they made was deliberate.

agreed, and that's generally why i hate noise bands. the lack of composition.

making noise is the easiest part of playing music/owning gear. writing something worth hearing is the hard part.

Very true. Writing pop is easy. Writing match rock that is engaging and stimulating like Slint or the Shipping News is hard. Writing good noise is super, ultra fucking hard and well beyond my own personal capability, so I have nothing but tons of respect for those who do it well.

You guys have me salivating so hard over Health that I'm scared I'll actually be disappointed when I hear them.

i think they're playing the camel with the amoeba men on april 6th.

incidentally, the amoeba men are playing with the chinese stars in dc tonight, the fuckers.

The thing is with noise, sometimes the artist is more interested in creating a texture or aural environment than he is in writing a discernable composition.

As for Health, I first heard about them here, on some "new bands" thread, but have yet to actually hear them.