by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Seattle’s Telehealth is very much born of this world, a duo that embrace the ridiculous nature of modern life, and run with it at all speed, offering transmissions from the corporate future. The duo of Alexander Attitude and Kendra Cox (both also of SPASI), are making mutant pop music, heavy on synths and tongue in cheek charm. It’s pop as imagined by a timeline where Devo set the blueprint, borrowing elements of punk, krautrock, and plenty of jagged new wave influences. The band dive into the framework with Content Oscillator, their debut album, due out March 31st, an album that skewers the greater sense of culture and hierarchy in our country as though viewed from the other side of it all. Songs bounce and ping pong with tight rhythmic structures and bent melodic sensibilities.
Having shared first single “Taliesin Grid,” the band return with “Do The In Between,” a song about settling for the middle of the road as a survival tactic, lambasting the political landscape that has pushed for compromise instead of change. It’s a song about losing out on the things we hold important in order to live in a homogenized middle. The song pulses with hyper active synths layered and darting around the sharpest of corners. It’s fun and radiant, paranoid in the best of ways, and well aware in others. Telehealth get there’s “something missing,” and they bring their unique vision of corporate futurism themes to figure out it all out.
Speaking about the video, the band shared:
‘The music video, by artist Amelia Jarvinen, is a visual exercise in doing ‘the In Between’. In response to their work, Jarvinen notes, “Once I started working on a scene, I just lost all sense of everything. Every time I “planned” out something, it has always completely changed. These scenes really have a life of their own and I have no control over them.”’