Hypnotic dance-punk sextet Gut Health have been a force in underground music since they first formed in a sharehouse on Hope St in Naarm/Melbourne’s inner north in 2022. Following the release of their debut EP Electric Party Chrome Girl, a collection of songs self-recorded in a National Storage facility in the heart of Brunswick, Gut Health have gone on to share stages with Queens of the Stone Age, POND, Otoboke Beaver, The Black Lips, Mudhoney and local icons RVG, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, and Body Type, showcase at BIGSOUND and SXSW Sydney, and made their debut performance at Meredith Music Festival last year.
Gut Health have recently announced their forthcoming debut album Stiletto due on October 11. The album is an immersive ten-track foray into dance floor-inducing soundscapes and punchy prowess, and features their recent singles ‘Separate States’ and ‘Cool Moderator’. Across its ten tracks, Gut Health journey through the “healing qualities of consensual rage”, backed by an unparalleled ability to build lingering tension and release in their instrumentation. “Uncertainty plays a lot through the album, we don’t want the listener to know exactly what is going to come next in the album to create excitement, intrigue and unease,” the band shares. It’s a transient commentary on life: the value of listening and sharing, the myths and falsehoods of contemporary so-called Australia, the empowerment of high-femmes and marginalised communities; an “expression of the passing human experience” that they share as an offering of cues and clues for listeners to find their own meaning in.
Listen back to Gut Health when the band joined Phil MacDougall on Sunglasses After Dark for a special Studio 5 Live performance.
