HEALTH

Stellar Regions

John Coltrane ·1967

"Stellar Regions is the first time I heard free form jazz... the richness of the saxophone on the first track, which is called 'Sfic Light,' is just incredibly emotionally arresting. I don't think there is, for me, an example of another instrumentalist who can be more expressive with their instrument than John Coltrane."

Burn, Piano Island, Burn

The Blood Brothers ·2003

"it's really intense, there's two singers who are both screaming and it's just a dog fest that will really get your blood pumping. It's consistently exciting and fun."

Christ The Album

Crass ·1982

"Crass was extremely foundational for me as a kid. I was obsessed with that entire sort of Peace Punk genre and that world that Crass Records created, but this record is by far my favorite record of theirs."

Close to the Edge

Yes ·1972

"Close to the Edge by Yes is definitely like an album for people who play instruments, but my favorite bass player of all time and musical hero Chris Squire... it's only three songs, one's 20 minutes, that said it is not boring, it's very very very pleasing to listen to."

The Disintegration Loops IV

William Basinski ·2003

"I have William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, this is volume four. If you're not familiar with this particular work, he's a modern experimentalist avant-garde composer, and he had all these field recordings and snippets of music he had made, and in the process of transferring them on magnetic tape, as the transfer tape gets worn down, the sound quality tends to diminish and hence disintegrate."

Criminal

The Soft Moon ·2018

"this is probably one of his loved albums I wish I could... it's really great modern post-punk, it's like the greatest intros of all time."