This Heat, Health and Efficiency
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How long can one band repeat one chord? This Heat try to find out.
The single that followed This Heat was the group's greatest recorded moment: the epic "Health & Efficiency" (named after a long-running British nudist magazine) channels the intense cerebrality of their debut into something that's almost a bizarre kind of dance record. "Here's a song about the sunshine/ Dedicated to the sunshine," they sing. And then, two minutes in, the song catches on fire as if the sunshine has been focused on it through a magnifying glass. The band hits a clench-and-release groove, a single chord and a single rhythm, and stays with it for hundreds of repetitions, cranking up its intensity a little more each time and overlaying it with sounds from the world outside of music that's made by human intention. It sounds mechanical at first, but it's actually incredibly physical: music about the joy of having a body.
