Track Listing

1. Speakers Push The Air
2. If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone
3. Sad Girls Por Vida
4. The Getaway
5. Untitled
6. More Sweet Soul
7. Ghosts In The Radio
8. Bring It On The Golden Pond
9. By The Throat
10. 3 Away
11. Modern Day Emma Goldman
12. Liquid Courage
13. Head South

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #121389 in Music
• Released on: 2004-08-30
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
A welcome reissue of this Seattle band's LookoutRecords debut, Good Healthcaptures Pretty Girls Make Graves before their music took on the pseudy, slightly muddled edge that made 2003's The New Romancea minor disappointment. Balanced neatly on the precipice between purge-and-vent emotion and post-hardcore complexity, PGMG ride a similar dynamic to Washington DC's Fugazi, forever ricocheting between moments of passionate excess and stoic experimentation, but always pulling back from the brink of each extreme.

The album peaks early – well, immediately, if we're honest – with the fantastic "Speakers Push The Air", a pleasingly straightforward hymn to the life-altering properties of rock music, pouting lead singer Andrea Zollo hurling the words "And nothing else matters when I turn it up loud!" with sheer adolescent joy. There's much good besides, though: "3 Away" imagines Bikini Kill if they had the chops to match the polemic, while "The Getaway" – the tale of a teenage runaway – adds a tender edge to Pretty Girls' rather hard visage. Even if you were turned off by the follow-up, Good Health is well worth picking up. --Louis Pattison