34. Health - "Disco4 :: Part II"

A fascinating, intriguing and consciously misleading record that revels in what it isn’t as much as it is. There are great streaks of electro here but it is much more than that. It flirts with Industrial, and, at times, it reminds me of the Nine Inch Nails that produced “Broke” and “Fixed” but it does not dwell in those pastures. There are also points where it is dirty, distorted pop. 

On a number of tracks Jake Duzsik sounds like Jason Donovan, if it was him that had been corrupted by Michael Hutchens and not Kylie. It’s dark and uncomfortable but also simultaneously alluring. For anyone who thought that Synth-based rock was clean and sanitised, this is the antidote. A dirty, perverted and deconstructed record that manipulates the mainstream into its image.