“We didn’t choose to be born/Under a dying sun,” sings Duzsik. “FEEL NOTHING” breaks up its vocal segments with a chugging fart of a guitar riff, the kind you’d hear choked out of a flying V and a practice amp at Guitar Center. HEALTH used to make lithe, multifaceted songs that wrapped daring pop melodies in bristling noise now, they seem content to complain into a murky hybrid of trip-hop and metal.ĭistorted power chords abound throughout SLAVES OF FEAR, but they tend to come in ones and twos, not progressions. SLAVES OF FEAR marks the first new HEALTH album since founding member Jupiter Keyes split from the band in late 2015, and his absence wears through every song.
Even the frontman’s usually translucent delivery sounds clouded and dulled, like the record’s pervasive, muddy low end is dragging him down. Gone are the crystalline synth trills that seemed to always cluster around Duzsik’s cybernetically androgynous voice. Gone are the complex, ferocious rattles of percussion that pitched HEALTH toward the toothier end of late-aughts neo-psychedelia instead, heavy, slogging drumbeats keep time one sledgehammer wallop at a time. band’s fourth original studio album, loses the thematic and musical density packed into their first three.
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