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HEALTH

HEALTH is an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band's 2007 release with Crystal Castles charted at position nine in the UK indie singles chart.
The band have found fame by playing multiple concerts for free, leading to a variety of venues requesting to book them. The band's favourite setting, LA's The Smell, has been their chosen place to record their full length album, "during empty mornings" , although the band have already recorded a live album at the Smell, released on DNT Records.
In 2008, Boston newspaper The Phoenix named them the Best New Band from California.
HEALTH opened for Nine Inch Nails on part of the Lights in the Sky tour in the fall of 2008.
The name of the band was chosen after the band's members agreed that they wanted to use an "everyday word." They created a list of words and went through to see which was taken, and the word "health" was the only one left.
HEALTH have been described as having "artfully crafted noise and raw synth, haunting monotone vocals, and drum skills that are borderline insane". Guardian Unlimited writer, Louis Pattison, chose the Crystal Castles version of "Crimewave" as the pick of the week, describing the song as "melancholy electro-pop built from pixelated synths and depressed vocals that hint at a past programme of busy and sustained serotonin depletion". Jim Carroll of The Irish Times also chose the song as tune of the week.
The band describes the role of lyrics as being "purposely kept vague for the listener":

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"...[Lyrics] sort of begin to bring out this more individual quality to the whole thing like, ‘These are the lyrics, and this is the guy is singing them, so I can relate to that.’ Which is really not something we want. We wanted the vocals to have an even, unaffected feel. A softness, like a Zombies melody, or even a Gregorian chant. We aren’t just interested in being a noisy screaming band."

The band's unusual sound can be partially accredited to the use of the Zoothorn, which is a permutation of microphone and guitar pedal and an occasional atonal sound without a symmetrical structure.
In piece for Dummymag.com, HEALTH described their love of sounds from the guitar solo on All Along the Watchtower to an elk's yelp.
To promote their 2009 album, GET COLOR, the band held a sweepstakes contest, in which a winner of a golden ticket was awarded a free trip to Los Angeles to go to Magic Mountain with the band. Other prizes included locks of the band members' hair and posters autographed in blood. In late 2009, the band was chosen as one of Beyond Race Magazine's "50 Emerging Artists," resulting in a spot in BRM's #11 issue as well as an exclusive online Q&A.
An album remixing the tracks from Get Color, entitled Disco2, was released on June 22, 2010.
HEALTH plans to debut an internet television show entitled HEALTHvision, which will star members of the band. They will also debut a clothing line in early 2010, which will feature high-quality, hand-sewn, one-of-a-kind designer items

HEALTH - Tour CD 2006

1.Crimewave
2.Courtship(Bird Flu)
3.Zoothorns
4.Subtitles
5.Crimewave(Crystlal Castles rmx)

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Self - titled(2007)


1.Heaven
2.Girl Attorney
3.Triceratops
4.Crimewave
5.Courtship
6.Zoothorns
7.Tabloid Sores
8./ / M \ \
9.Glitter Pills
10.Perfect Skin
11.Lost Time
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Dimensions in noise(2009)



1.Dimensions In Noise
2.Lovepump United
3.City Slang
4.Co-Operative

Very rare UK-only release of noise jams performed by HEALTH during the Get Color sessions. This was an extremely limited CD release that was distributed at the Rough Trade store in London.

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Get Color(2009)


1.In Heat
2.Die Slow
3.Nice Girls
4.Death+
5.Before Tigers
6.Severin
7.Eat Flesh
8.We Are Water
9.In Violet

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DISCO(2008)



1.Triceratops (Acid Girls Rmx A)
2.Lost Time (Pictureplane Rmx)
3.Triceratops (Acid Girls Rmx B )
4.Crimewave (Crystal Castles remix)
5.Heaven (Narctrax Rmx)
6.Problem Is (Thrust Lab Rmx)
7.Triceratops (CFCF Rmx)
8.Lost Time (C.L.A.W.S. Rmx)
9.Tabloid Sores (Nosaj Thing Rmx)
10.Heaven (Pink Skull Rmx)
11.Perfect Skin (Curses! Rmx)
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DISCO2(2010)



1.USA Boys
2.Before Tigers (CFCF remix)
3.In Heat (Javelin remix)
4.Die Slow (Tobacco remix)
5.Severin (Small Black remix)
6.Before Tigers (Gold Panda remix)
7.Eat Flesh (Crystal Castles remix)
8.In Violet (Salem rmx)
9.Nice Girls (Blondes rmx)
10.Die Slow (Pictureplane rmx)
11.Nice Girls (Little Loud rmx)
12.Before Tigers (Blindoldfreak rmx)

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DISCO2 bonus tracks

1.In Violet (Hidden Cat remxi)
2.Die Slow (Nastique remix)
3.Eat Flesh (Baron Von Luxxury remix)
4.Die Slow (Nite Jewel remix)
5.Before Tigers (Rainbow Arabia remix)
6.We Are Water (Soft Encounter remix)
7.Death+ (Clipd Beaks remix)
8.Severin (Yip-Yip remix)
9.Death+ (Delivery remix)
10.In Heat (Rodion remix)
11.We Are Water (Azari & III remix)
12.Die Slow (Pink Stallone remix)

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