Album Review: Health&Beauty - No Scare

5 August 2016 | 4:27 pm | Mac McNaughton

"Angelic observations meander Sufjan Stevens-like among Tame Impala-ish psych wankery."

Brian Sulpizio's Ohio trio Health&Beauty are in no hurry to add any spit and polish to their sixth album of fuzzy basement scuzz-outs.

Call it post-rock, psych-rock… bloody anything that doesn't preface any sort of predictable formula. Here are seven musings of varying lucidity that see Sulpizio's angelic observations meander Sufjan Stevens-like among Tame Impala-ish psych wankery giving the frisson of one-take studio recordings. A rampaging rhythm guitar on No Scare and the mourning of late internet activist Aaron Swartz on Im Yr Baby strike hardest with intoxicating danger.