Our featured album this week is ‘Green World Image‘ by Seattle post punk/new wave/art rock/art punk band Telehealth.
Telehealth was forged in the opportunity-rich environment of post-COVID Seattle as a scalable music startup with similar goals. Co-founded in 2022 by married couple and fellow gambling enthusiasts Alexander Attitude (synths/vox/guitar) and Kendra Cox (synths/vox), and joined by longtime collaborators Ian McCutcheon (drums), John O’Connor (bass), and Dillon Sturtevant (guitar), the group aims to financialize any difference of opinion over how the in-shambles local “music scene” should proceed.
The follow-up to their 2023’s debut album, Content Oscillator, is a vertically-integrated artwork for the post-grunge, post-flannel Seattleite, and consumers around the globe who are also ready to financialize their own passion for music.
Trauma-informed, results-driven, and eminently danceable, the weirdo punk record is inspired by Attitude’s tenure as a former architect in a Climate Pledged™ city that has perfected the art of “Green World” architecture with its network of efficiently zoned 5-over-1s. Telehealth’s PNW post-punk creates similar architectural spaces, where the gleaming, futuristic, tech-industrial rhythms and synths of Bezos-era Seattle commingle with the raw, independent, underground sound the city lovingly preserves for cultural texture and marketing purposes. The outcome? Think XTC, REM, and YMO with a stronger focus on ROI. Imagine The B-52s, but B2B. Envision a bigger-brained Brainiac, a transhuman Gary Numan, or a terminally online Pylon.
Green World Image is a sweaty journey through the anxiety- and profit-inducing system Telehealth inhabits and critiques at the same time, sold back to listeners as an absurd art rock slice of strife.
Green World Image is out now via SubPop Records. Buy it here and stream it below.
Tracklist:
- [user onboarding sequence]
- The Telehealth Shuffle
- Kokomo 2
- Donor Country (A gOoD cAuSe)
- Age of Muralcide
- Things I’ve Killed
- Cost of Inaction
- Silver Spoon
- Cool Job
- Yassify Me
- Maria, Machine
- Villain Era
- Living, Laughing, Loving, Trying
Photo credit: Eleanor Petry
