We have been anticipating this moment for a while: new HEALTH album, ‘Get Color’, which you can pre-order now from always ace Lovepump United.
So what does it do? it lures you inside the bedroom, closes the door and hacks at you with razor blades. It pumps you with psychedelic drugs and throws you into a pool full of sharks. It is hardcore body music on the prowl, engineered by instinct in a brutally abstract way, hit & run of rhythm, noise and drone melody shards fracturing your field of vision, primary colours seep through the cracks. Oil on water, a feeling of sexy oppression, forlorn love letters written in a cryptic code from the same jacking basement where My Bloody Valentine and Daft Punk create the thickest music from the weirdest materials. Candidate to album of the year? We are so there.
Little Claw have a new album out, it is called Human Taste and it seethes with yummy sweaty country nastiness. It’s all about fierce urges, craving and stomping down twisted and dusty paths. It reminds me of the following apocryphal story: there was this girl pop band who were tipped up to be the hottest thing in the air-waves, you know, proper Phil Spector material. Their van broke down in the derelict backwaters of most primeval Appalachia while they were out on tour, and they were never seen again. Some say that they roamed in the wilderness, filthy and starved, and at some point, under a furious storm that uprooted trees and chipped the sides of the hills, they got the feral blues. So they played under the gaze of mangy wild dogs and stern birds of prey, covered in mud and blood, they played with the fury of those who play for wild dogs and birds of prey and the moon gazing from between a shroud of storm clouds. They sounded a little bit like this.
Oh, and just so you know, Dazed & Confused Online have a blog awards, and 20jfg is in the music category (shame there wasn’t an occult one) alongside our best pals Allez Allez and some other great blogs.
Place your votes HERE, and spread the word!
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regarding that vote…you better get cracking on some new 100% 20jgs crafted mix(tapes)
then..it’s been a while and I(the world as a whole)miss them oh so oh so much!
Yours sincerely
Alice Crowley11th August 2009
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I’m on it Alice! Xx
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20jazzfunkgreats11th August 2009
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I saw Little Claw live in Portland with the expanded percussion unit that is featured on Human Taste plus an auxiliary noise unit who charmed the square waves so perfectly. It was surely one of the best live performances I enjoyed in 2008, and this new album surely was captured while the band was in that perfect zone. It is without a doubt joining the pantheon of best albums of 2009, and it’s almost certainly my favorite Little Claw album so far. This is a must for me on both formats. So-called shitgaze, be damned…This also draws from the roots of central/southern Ohio’s roots of weird punk and outsider rock, and then spins it backwards into a timewarp that’s 20-25 years deeper. Human Taste shall be all the more timeless, I reckon.
Yours sincerely
DJ Rick12th August 2009
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Believe. We’d love it if you wrote a column for us from time to time Rick.
Yours sincerely
J12th August 2009
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[...] The first leak from HEALTH’s upcoming sophomore LP, Get Color, happened many Internet moons ago, and this track, “Eat Flesh,” comes only a few weeks before the album is scheduled for release, on label Lovepump United. Like the leak before it, “Eat Flesh” suggests that the songs on Get Color are much more structured outings than the content of the band’s self-titled debut. “Eat Flesh” goes on for a full four lyric-less minutes without ever seeming like the band is getting indulgent or just having fun with us, but Get Color still has seven tracks for them to do that. Listen over at 20jazzfunkgreats. [...]
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Music News, IOmusic.net » Health: "Eat Flesh"13th August 2009