Telehealth's "Green World Image" Blends Post-Punk with Topical Social Commentary
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Chris DeVille
Crackles when you bite it. Shows the baker did the work.
Summary
Telehealth, a Seattle post-punk band, has released a new album called "Green World Image" that blends B-52s-style new wave with Devo-inspired punk-funk grooves. Their music features topical lyrics about modern culture's degradation, as exemplified in tracks like "Things I've Killed" (which lists things millennials supposedly killed off) and the new single "Yassify Me." The article reviews their sound and style.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledAll throughout their new album Green World Image, Seattle post-punks Telehealth pull off a brilliant pastiche of B-52s-style party-time new wave
weaving their oblong neon punk-funk grooves full of extremely topical lyrics about the plight of living in our degraded modern culture
There's more than a little Devo in their sound and their worldview
"Things I've Killed," an absolute riot on which they rattled off a list of entities supposedly killed off by millennials: "Baseball/ Golf course/ Mayonnaise/ Credit score," and so on
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