“No, it’s not just your imagination,” claim HEALTH. “The future is shit and the phone you are reading this on is making it worse.” It’s a suitable epigram for the twelve industrially-tinged and rather downtrodden compositions held within ‘CONFLICT DLC’. The Californian band are an industrious trio, with a refreshingly bold approach to collaboration that their near two decades of consistent output attests to. Their propensity for combining heavy electronics with shades of industrial metal has brought work alongside Nine Inch Nails, Chelsea Wolfe, Bad Omens, and, somewhat surprisingly, Lauren Mayberry – vocalist with the Glaswegian synth pop group Chvrches.
Mayberry’s feature appeared on ‘RAT WARS’, an album HEATLH initially released in 2023 – only to release it again a year later, with its runtime subsequently elongated by a selection of songs re-recorded alongside guests that included Mayberry. The implication is that these are fluid entities that will shift over time. The same…
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