Health's music has traditionally been about fitting jagged edges into rounded corners. Making harsh noise listenable within a pop music framework—it's for these reasons that this Nite Jewel remix also works so well. Any trace of the original's rough aspects are eliminated and are instead wrapped in a gauzy film of distant electronics and rippling drum machines. It's warm and comforting, and like the best of Nite Jewel's music, it sounds like coming out the other end of a particularly heavy food coma and feeling rested but immovable. So basically...this is music for after your Thanksgiving dinner? It's a little early, but we'll still be listening in November. Up above watch the "censored" version of Health's "USA Boys," in which they clearly spent a lot of time meticulously cutting out anything that might be even somewhat not safe for work. Tour dates after the jump.
Download: Health, "Die Slow" (Nite Jewel Remix)
JUNE:
19 - Allston, MA - Great Scott w/ The Death Set
20 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
22 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
23 - Charlotte, NC - Snug Harbor
24 - Atlanta, GA - 529
25 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jack’s
26 - Austin, TX - Red 7
JULY:
01 - DE - Hamburg, Hafenklang
02 - DK - Roskilde Festival
04 - FR - Belfort, Eurockeennes
05 - DE - WUErzburg, Posthalle
07 - PL - Warsaw, Centralny Basen Artystyczny
09 - DE - Rüsselsheim, Phonopop
10 - BE - Liege, Les Ardentes
13 - HR - Zagreb, Kset
14 - AT - Graz, Forum Stadtpark
16 - DE - Graefenhainichen, Melt! Festival
18 - NL - Nijmegen, De Affaire Festival
24 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
25 - Baltimore, MD - Whartscape
31 - Beaver Valley, ON - Electric-Eclectics Festival
AUGUST:
08 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
24 - SE - Malmo Festival
25 - NL - Groningen Vera
27 - CH - Zurich Festival
28 - UK – Leeds Festival
29 - UK – Reading Festival
SEPTEMBER:
04 - Seattle, WA - Bumpershoot Festival
OCTOBER:
* the following dates [10.08 - 10.31] - w/ CRYSTAL CASTLES
08 - UK - Belfast, Mandela Hall
09 - IRL- Dublin, Academy
11 - UK - Liverpool, Academy
12 - UK - Bournemouth, Academy
15 - UK - London, Roundhouse
17 - UK - Bristo,l Anson Rooms
18 - UK - Wolverhampton, Wulfrun
19 - UK - Glasgow, ABC
21 - UK – Nottinhgam, Rock City
22 - UK – Manchester, Academy
23 - UK – Leeds, Met
24 - UK – Norwich, UEA
26 - NL - Amsterdam, PAradiso
27 - LUX - Luxembourg, Rockhal
29 - FR - Lille, Ground Zero Festival
30 - FR – Paris, La Cigale
31 - FR - Bordeaux, Krakatoa