★★★★★
Perhaps because most modern videogames find themselves soundtracked by rap-metal bands or proper composers on loan from Hollywood (and sometimes both), the fact that Rockstar's triple-A blockbuster Max Payne 3 sports an original score from trendy noise-rockers HEALTH automatically qualifies it as cool...
- www.cokemachineglow.com
2012-06-11
★★★★★
The past 15 years or so have seen video games evolve from crude tests of hand-eye coordination for sedentary children into something approaching an "art" form. With this growth in visual sophistication and narrative complexity, it's only natural that game developers should strive for their soundtracks to meet the same standards of maturity and seek out talent that can take the aural content of their game to the next level...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2012-06-07
★★★★★
If its coverage elsewhere has conveyed the sense that this is a 'moment' in the relationship between the videogame and music industries, 's score for Rockstar Games' newest triple-A title has served its purpose well. Reputable musicians have long enjoyed flirting with button-bashers and the like: 's work for Splinter Cell 3 attracted admirers in 2004/05, and contributed stirring sounds to 2010's ambitious action-adventurer Enslaved: Odyssey to the West...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Sound: HEALTH is a noise rock/experimental electronic group, who became a big part of the electronic scene in 2007 when their album with Crystal Castles debuted, and then took off. That year would also see the release of their first album, which is self-titled. HEALTH execute a very high energy sound, that is often chaotic and uses the whole "wall of sound" factor very well. There are some beautiful sounds produced from their pedals, all behind some really furious drumming...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Calfornia's rather fine 'noise' band Health have forged their reputation as much by their own oft lacerating, eccentric beats and layers of sounds as the alliances they have formed along the way. Early recognition came as part of a collaboration with the inexcusably popular Crystal Castles, and their first record was swiftly followed by a remix album featuring versions phoned in by the good and great of the So-Hot-Right-Now bloggo-scene...
- www.state.ie
2011-04-29
★★★★★
Buy / Listen: 7Digital | Amazon | eMusic | We7 | Spotify The second offering from L.A. caps lock worriers HEALTH sets about proving that the boys can sit still long enough to write something that lasts beyond the one minute mark and manage to keep things interesting and perhaps even shake off the feeling that they are just an attention deficient, Yellow Pack version of Liars...
- www.state.ie
2011-01-25
★★★★★
Buy / Listen: 7Digital | Amazon | eMusic | We7 | Spotify Calfornia's rather fine 'noise' band Health have forged their reputation as much by their own oft lacerating, eccentric beats and layers of sounds as the alliances they have formed along the way. Early recognition came as part of a collaboration with the inexcusably popular Crystal Castles, and their first record was swiftly followed by a remix album featuring versions phoned in by the good and great of the So-Hot-Right-Now bloggo-scene...
- www.state.ie
2011-01-25
★★★★★
Since linking arms with Crystal Castles, HEALTH's respectable reputation has spread to a wider audience and you can rest assured that 'DISCO' is going to be the party-music for many a scene. However, 'DISCO' is essentially, a various artists album, with HEALTH's name placed in giant letters on the front cover. Obviously, the California-bred four-piece set the flawless foundations for such a work but what makes this remix album so impressive is that these tracks have taken a whole new direction...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-16
★★★★★
So by now you are aware of The Smell, the Los Angeles art space/studio/gig venue from which emanate the evil sounds of bands such as Health and No Age and their all-age, free gigs. It's heartening to see some good music coming out of the centre of such a shitty city. (It looks like Warrington with palm trees; it is twice as depressing and smells three times as bad...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
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