Video of the Week | HEALTH “Triceratops”
As a kid, I was way into dinosaurs, always fascinated by the exhibits of their bones at museums and would be constantly reading about them in books and encyclopedias (the Wikipedia of yesteryear). And who can forget “Land of the Lost” let alone the blockbuster hit “Jurassic Park?” Shit, I’m still into the prehistoric beasts to this day, I can’t lie, I get pretty hype for those Discovery Channel specials like “Walking With Dinosaurs” and “When Dinosaurs Roamed America.”
HEALTH brings back sounds of the Cretaceous with their single “Triceratops” from their self-titled debut long player. The LA quartet dips into the primordial soup, crafting sonic assaults of rumbling guitar lines, massive electronically produced locust-like buzzes, shrieks, thundering drums, squalls of noise, crashing symbols, along with Cro-Magnon chants and screams (yeah, I know part this doesn’t jive with the prehistoric timeline). The Saul Levitz directed video for “Triceratops” shows band members intensely performing the track live in front of a small audience for Dublab’s “VisionVersion Project.” The audio accompanying the video is also the live version and not the album recording of the song.
HEALTH brings the noise to New York City next Wednesday for FRICTION with Crystal Castles, Team Robespierre, and Apache Beat. Grab the album version of “Triceratops” below.
[MP3]: HEALTH ”Triceratops”
Health, Lovepump United; 2008
