Get Colour

If their first album was an exercise in repetition and abrasiveness, Health took it up a notch for their second album 'Get Color'. Instead of using a computer interface to record, as they did with their predominantly digital self-titled album, the quartet produced straight onto two-inch tape, in hopes of boosting the levels to the red without the interference of digital clipping. As well as being larger, the aspect that separates 'Get Color' from the band's debut of fractured near-instrumentals is that the tracks on board actually feel like fully realised songs, rather than sketched ideas. When vicious guitar and drum loops are accompanied by smashing, grating bursts that emulate a belt-sander sawing glass or a sledgehammer smashing a vintage keyboard plugged through a Marshall wall, Jacob Duzsik's blanket-soft vocal lines cushion the blows exquisitely. For many, Health's noisy tendencies will be a bit much, but those who aren't afraid to dig deeper will be rewarded greatly.|