HEALTH: Disco2

Label: Lovepump United

Hot on the heels of last year's Get Color, the L.A. weird-dance outfit HEALTH repeats its move subsequent to the release of its self-titled debut with a remix album. Disco2 adds one new track, the crystalline "USA Boys," and 11 wildly varying remixes of seven of the album's tracks. It isn't hard for nu-fashion-gothers Salem to stand out, both in terms of sound -- a wan, almost Screw-styled entry with cascades of vocals -- and the fact that they're the only ones to work with "In Violet." At the same time, the three versions of "Before Tigers" displays the open-source quality of HEALTH's music (as well as the pros and cons of remix records), resulting in sweetly alluring electro-pop (Cfcf's version), slightly anachronistic IDM that wisely adds a 4/4 (Gold Panda) and a downright ecstatic and heavenly coda for this entire collection (Blindoldfreak's remix). A mishmash of sounds that is a necessity for all HEALTH fans. (Both the CD and LP include a code to download 12 additional remixes.) (M.L. Thrope)