Health (band)

Health
HEALTH performing at Becks Music Box in 2010
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Noise rock experimental rock electronic rock post-rock
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Loma Vista Lovepump United Trouble Flemish Eye No Pain In Pop City Slang Rome Plow
Website	youwillloveeachother.com
Members	Benjamin Jared Miller Jake Duzsik John Famiglietti
Past members	Jupiter Keyes

Health (often stylised as HEALTH) is an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California.

Health was created after its members agreed the name should be an "everyday word." After reviewing a long list of terms, “health” was the only one not taken.

Health first gained reputation through a remix of their song “Crimewave” by experimental electronic band Crystal Castles in August 2007. The rendition helped broaden Health’s audience in anticipation for their full-length debut a month later released under LovePump United. The band’s self-titled album was recorded in L.A.’s noise/experimental venue, The Smell. Known for its DIY mystique, Health knew how difficult, yet rewarding, it would be to record in the space. Famiglietti said in an interview, “The room completely changes the tone of anything you want to record; makes a lot of things dark and beautiful. It also makes everything sound like “CLANG!” We didn't realize how hard it would be at all, we especially weren't prepared for the Vaquero bar dropping the reggaeton jamz at 1pm every day.”

Their unique sound on the album caught the attention of Spin in which they wrote, “The near-innocuous opening track of Health's self-titled album, "Heaven," segues into the 36-second neurotic dissonance of "Girl Attorney," which picks up tempo on its transition into "Triceratops"—a thrashing scourge of screeches, feedback, and gratuitous clanging reminiscent of Liars laced with a relief of a Deerhunter meditation.”

Health released their first remix album in 2008 with remixes of tracks off their debut album. The CD also included 5 data-only tracks that can be accessed through a computer. This was the band’s highest rated album on Pitchfork with a score of eight.

Health’s second album, also released on LovePump, earned a score of eight from Pitchfork in which the review claimed “Never merely meager, this project delivers, both when you're waving your orgy-snorkel all blotto on-the-town, and for a soundtrack to serious rumination at your midday desk of harsh reality.” Duzsik agreed with an interviewer that Get Color was indeed more accessible than their self-titled debut, but “It’s still crazy, though.”

In 2008 the band also opened for the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails on their Lights In The Sky final tour for five months (July–December).