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Telehealth – “Yassify Me”

stereogum.com·Chris DeVille·18 days ago
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All 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. You heard it in action on " 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. And we hear it again today on "Yassify Me," the final advance single before the album drops tomorrow. "Yassify" is, of course, an extremely online term for applying over-the-top beauty filters to a human portrait until it becomes something unnerving and hyperreal.…

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