You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
The band Health formed in Los Angeles in 2005.
Their newest record, Death Magic, came out in 2015.
They spent four years trying to make it.
They described themselves as a noise band,
but for this record, they reinvented their palette and their process.
In this episode, John and Jake from Health take apart the song Stone Fist,
which they made with their bandmates Jupiter Keys and BJ Miller.
And just a heads up, this episode has some explicit language.
Now, here's Stone Fist on Song Exploder.
I'm Jake.
from health, and I sing and play guitar.
This is John, and I play bass.
Though I guess we're all doing a lot of stuff on computer.
The whole song started completely computer-generated as the kind of riff.
I had, like, a synth sound that I had made,
and I put it in reverse and just chopped this really tiny segment and then just,
like, cranked all the distortion.