
I’ve never been fond of remix albums. Infact, that’s probably putting it a tad lightly. I positively loathe them. The blame surely has to lie mostly at the feet of the 90s, where any track that had a synthetic drumbeat slapped over it with a higher tempo was considered ‘remix’ worthy.
Two years on from the release of HEALTH//DISCO, the noise-kings have followed suit with DISCO2 - the remix version of their sophomore masterpiece GET COLOR. Thankfully, the shiny double LP that dropped into the Artrocker inbox doesn’t disappoint.


It’s here. We’re one of the first to get a hold of a copy of Health’s eagerly anticipated second ‘proper’ album (forgetting the remix LP for now) – in all of its glory. The limited-to-500-copies clear vinyl that I hold in my hand is so early infact, that the download link provided doesn’t even work yet. A quick Google will find scores of people trying to get their grubby digital paws on something.. anything to do with ‘Get Color’ that it feels like a special privilege to wrap back the plastic.
After getting over the dodgy Americanised spelling of the name, as well as my turntable going schitzo halfway through side A - refusing to stop spinning, or moving the tone-arm back and forth from its resting position, I finally managed to feast my ears on the latest ‘noise-rock’ offering.
Or so I thought anyway. Health don’t really fit that tag – not when you throw them in with the likes of Abe Vigoda or the Paper Chase or any of the other more ‘traditional’ band set-ups (bearing in mind how different this lot are already). If you imagine a duck throwing a microphone at a metal wall, you get some sort of idea of what you might expect from what we’ve heard from Health already; drums and guitar parts flying in from nowhere and dropping dead at your feet all over the place.

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