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Not only is one of our favorite dark, gothy electro-rock/noise rock purveyors back, but HEALTH has decided to link up with an amazing array of collaborators for their new series of releases, too. Last month, HEALTH partnered up with Soccer Mommy and Purity Ring’s Corin Roddick on Mass Grave. And now they’ve followed it up with BODY/PRISON, an icy haunting, inky throbbing collaboration with Parisian electronic artist Perturbator. BODY/PRISON is a cacophonous eruption of abrasive synths and bristling beats. It’s just the beautifully visceral, handsomely twisted sort of noise rock and electro that’s perfect for this time of the year, when Halloween comes knocking at our door with a ghoulish grin and a bloody fangs. A macabre video game-styled music video accompanies the witchy, ravey song. It’s fitting, considering the influence of scoring video games on HEALTH’s new music. The LA-based band consisting of Jacob Duzsik, John Famigletti, and Benjamin Miller also announced European tour dates supporting The Neighbourhood on an eleven date run early next year. You can also stream BODY/PRISON on Spotify, here, or purchase from iTunes, here.

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POPGUN PRESENTS INTERVIEW: HEALTH

11.19.15

LA-bred noise band HEALTH first gained notoriety in 2007 when they collaborated with Crystal Castles to produce a remix of their single “Crimewave,” which ultimately ended up on Crystal Castles’ breakout 2008 self-titled album. They developed their sound at famed underground LA venue The Smell, performing and producing music in a scene that included other loud, innovative bands like No Age and Ex Model. Their sound is angular and artfully crafted – raw synth, pounding drums, vocals that almost recall a Gregorian chant.

New album DEATH MAGIC is their first studio record since 2009. In the past few years, they’ve toured with Nine Inch Nails and produced the soundtrack for video game Max Payne. This latest record is polished and heavy — the logical next step in this band’s creative trajectory. DEATH MAGIC pummels you in the way you crave in a HEALTH record, but offers an almost unexpected pop sensibility that makes it more easily digestible. The difference is compelling: vulnerable lyrics in tracks like “L.A. Looks” (“It’s not love, but I still want you”) live alongside moments of deafening synthetic fury. Pitchfork summed it up best in their review of the record: “Without the occasional beam of light, it’s hard to appreciate how dark – or how good – a band like HEALTH can actually be.”

With our (le) Poisson Rouge show on Sunday, frontman Jacob Duzsik answered a few questions for us.

Give us a snapshot of the LA underground music scene. How is it different than Brooklyn? The same? What was your favorite show at The Smell?

If I am being honest I don’t really know much about the underground music scene in Brooklyn, so it would be difficult to compare the two. I travel so much that if I’m in New York and I have any down time I try to spend it with friends. The LA underground now seems to center much more around warehouse parties. A lot of the dudes who were in noise bands in the mid 2000’s DJ house and techno. As for a favorite show at The Smell, we saw so many epic bills there. But for my party I remember seeing the chicago band Coughs play one of the greatest shows i’ve ever seen. It was terrifying.

How is The Smell (and the scene around it) today as compared to yesterday? As we know DIY venues tend to have an expiration date because of landlords, property costs, what have you – how do you think this has survived? How is it different now that it’s so well-known?

The scene has unquestionably changed dramatically since we cut our teeth at The Smell, but movements in music are always fickle. I think The Smell has enjoyed such longevity because it is simply extremely well run. People take it seriously and have their shit together, you can’t drink etc. I don’t find myself there every often as I’m more likely to be home watching the fuckin’ cooking network with my girlfriend or hanging out somewhere I can drink. Total old guy style.

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