• Health Shifts Its Style from Record to Record. The Fans Demand it.
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    Health Shifts Its Style from Record to Record. The Fans Demand it.

    Health has covered a lot of sonic territory since the trio sprang from a downtown Los Angeles noise scene in the mid-aughts, a scene that often ditched musical theory and anything resembling melody, where a “song” might involve someone overloading a public address system with white noise. It was more about performance art than music, and more avant-garde than even Ornette Coleman or late-period John Coltrane. “When I say ‘noise,’ I mean a lot of really experimental free noise — like, not songs, not bands,” says singer Jake Duzsik. “We were a band, so we integrated a lot of that sound power and those aesthetics into our own music.” Unlike noise…

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