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Experimental Health

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    CD comes with Bonus remixes.
    Leave Nobody Behind (Black Market Karma Remix)
    45e (Mosaic Runes Remix)

    The bonus remixes are two divergent interpretations by Black Market Karma and Mosaic Runes, both artists deploying their own respective skill sets and aura. The former with unfurling guitars and live drums, spreading a magnetic warmth and charm. The latter returning to the cryptic spectres haunting the record, drawing out the hidden spirit of broken equipment and infusing the tracks with their signature fractured ice.

    CD in a matt digipak with art by Stephen Lawrie.

    Watch promo video (YouTube): bit.ly/TheTelescopesExpHealth

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    UK: thetelescopes.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-health
    ROW: weisskaltrecords.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-health

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1.
Because They Care There is no sense In this pretence Our common sense In passing tense Now we have learned To feed the worm We seed the germ As we have learned In our loves In our hates In our habits In our traits In our thoughts In our dreams And in all In between Because they care Because they care Yeah yeah Yeah yeah Every voice Recognition Every choice A decision Thought balloons Noughts and ones We are moons We are suns Because they care Because they care Yeah yeah Yeah yeah Because they care Because they care Yeah yeah Yeah yeah Because they care Because they care
2.
The Turns 04:15
The Turns Time to turn Over again Time for the turns The turns again Live while you can And live all over When you're dead You'll be dead all over Turn again
3.
When I Hear The Sound Day and night Night and day It ain't easy To find a way I get lost And I get found I get lost When I hear the sound Don't fuck with me I don't fuck with you Every day In every way We're not the same We're not the same I get lost And I get found I get lost When I hear the sound Don't fuck with me I don't fuck with you
4.
Leave Nobody Behind A shot in the arm A stab in the dark A lucky charm A question mark Leave nobody behind In one head Within two minds A twisted thread A web unwinds Leave nobody behind Got to get a way out of here Got to get away from here Got to find a way out of here Got to find a way from here Leave nobody behind
5.
45e 06:02
45E Now is the reason Now is the reason Welfare warfare Scaring caring Drugs so awesome They have to force them Now is the reason Now is the reason No explanation Don’t need a reason Now is the reason Now is the reason
6.
The Wrong Dimension Living in the wrong dimension It all looks the same Living in the wrong dimension Nothing is the same When you begin to question What has taken hold When you begin to question Everyone is cold Living in the wrong dimension It all looks the same Living in the wrong dimension Nothing is the same Nothing the same The science of compliance The complicity of silence The distance to divide us Pseudoscientific guidance Weaponising care No finger pointing there Living in the wrong dimension It all looks the same Living in the wrong dimension Nothing is the same Living in the wrong direction It all looks the same Living in the wrong dimension Nothing is the same Nothing the same
7.
Repetitive Brain Injury It may wander It may roam Where it wanders It may roam It may wander Wander home it may wander It may roam May it wander May it roam Where it wanders May it roam May it wander Wander home May it wander May it roam Let it wander Let it roam Where it wanders Let it roam Let it wander Wander home Let it wander Let it roam
8.
The Turns Again There, there.
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about

Experimental Health is the 14th album from The Telescopes and their third release on the Weisskalt label. The album was created entirely independently by Stephen Lawrie in a remote cottage in West Yorkshire between January to May 2022.

Experimental Health is folk music made with broken toys and cheap synths - mostly Pocket Operators and miniature synths. There are no guitars present on the album, most of the instrumentation costing £50 or less. The complexity of sound rests within the simplicity of the composition and musical arrangements.

The Telescopes' music has constantly pushed its own boundaries. The music overlaps many genres following its own inspiration-led course. Time has shown The Telescopes' music not only withstands repeated listening but also reveals something new whenever one ventures between the grooves. It has been described by the music press as "more a revolution of the psyche than a revolution of the sidewalk"; a thread consistent throughout a body of work spanning over 30 years.

Watch promo video (YouTube): bit.ly/TheTelescopesExpHealth

LP/Digital:
UK: thetelescopes.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-health
ROW: weisskaltrecords.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-health

REVIEWS:

"Between hallucinatory ballads and transcendent melodies, clanging, lo-fidelity buzzes and joyful psychotic touches, this work is a treasure trove of truly precious possessions. Battered only in appearance, unclassifiable yet accessible to a wide audience, Experimental Health is the photograph of a distorted reality and for this reason a sweetly and devilishly cathartic album. The year isn't over yet, but it's already rightfully among the best records of 2023" (Perkele)

“Buzzes with insectoid static". 8/10 (Uncut Magazine)

“Like Robert Wyatt on LSD... it may be The Telescopes' most accessible album in years" (Gonzaï Magazine)

"You’ve not heard anything like this before" (Electronic Sound Magazine)

"Absolutely gripping in sound and consequence. And intelligence. And perception. And in Lawrie's unsated need to work from every conceivable angle. And every fucking thing else that you can possibly think of. This is brilliant" (Isolation)

"Experimental Health mostly doles out candied gems, some of the band's most infectious songs in recent memory..." (Most Anticipated Releases Of 2023: Beats Per Minute)

"An album of lo-fi psyched-out swirls that lushly loop around, distorted and rich, defying any humble origins. There is a healthy depth to its strangeness" (NARC Magazine)

"Elegiac, claustrophobic and contagiously disturbed" (Classic Rock)

"Almost proving that these toys and synths have spirits of their own, that an uncanny expression of the divine lives in their emissions" (4/5, Wee Review)

"Experimental Health has the hollow shape of a shelter. Come and unplug from the rest of the world, if that is what you, like me, desire" (Reverendo Lys)

"Sits proudly alongside some of Lawrie’s finest works" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

"Tintinnabulation resounds through the astral planes pulsating waves of pleasure that wash over the mind's crevices... Highly recommended" (Scene Point Blank)
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released February 24, 2023

All songs written by Stephen Lawrie © Control 2022.
Performed mixed and produced by Stephen Lawrie at The Experimental Health Unit. Mastered by Colin Tucker.

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