Get Color (Bonus Track Version)

iTunes Review

If HEALTH’s baffling, self-titled debut of 2007 was too noisy and splintering for you, Get Color may offer some solace. It offers a truly enchanting and more cohesive listening experience, threaded together by the L.A. band’s affinity for electronic pastiches and old- school, post-punk textures. One would bet these guys were weaned on groups like Swell Maps and Cabaret Voltaire, and if not, well, there must be some kind of mutated DNA in the indie world that found its way to the Smell (the club where HEALTH cut their teeth). From the gentle screech of oscillating electronics to drums that boom and echo, from the ethereal and disconnected vocals to the woodshop buzz of the guitars, HEALTH’s music may rattle the faint of heart, but it inarguably emboldens the brave and the curious. “In Violet” reminds the listener of the beauty possible in industrial music, and “Die Slow” evinces the dance-floor playfulness of the genre. Tracks like “In Heat” and “We Are Water” put “cutting edge” back into modern music’s lexicon with power, grace and passion.