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Health.jpeg HEALTH///
DISCO///
Lovepump United /// WORDS: AMY KNIGHT ///

DISCO, an album consisting solely of remixed HEALTH songs, is a pagan disco rock pilgrimage to a distant planet, held firmly together by a consistent, aggressive intensity. Existing in a subliminal league of their own, oscillating between minimal, slowed-down electro, eighties synths and drum machines, glo stick-producing rave and wired, drum-thumping, manic obscurity that floats in an arena of space between Syclops and Frank Zappa, HEALTH display the qualities of neo-hippy bands such as MGMT and Times New Viking, sans the idealist lyrics of the former and the auditory dis-organisation of the latter. Words are used sparingly and with deliberation; only that which seems essential is conveyed, the album closing theatrically with the words 'make us perfect' in the Curses! remix of Perfect Skin. While Triceratops is visceral, musically and lyrically, with intoxicating synths and a bassline that strings the track's eclectic components together, Lost Time is a raw, tribal, percussive experiment with electronically repeating vocal chanting behind an electro-disco resonance, undulating with these polaric sounds that merge and overlap in effortless harmony. In the mid-depths of the album, Crystal Castles' Crimewave remix consolidates that which precedes and follows it. The album should be approached as an entity, rather than a series of isolated tracks; its logic is similar to the band's live performances, of an extended overture that succinctly demonstrates their musical capacity, the ending of each track linking neatly onto the next beginning. DISCO, and its self-titled prequel debut, purvey a considered experimentalism at the forefront of a new era of music, of a climactic unification of distorted electro, thrash and, well, disco, that cannot at present be rivalled.

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