Telehealth, the Seattle indie-punk band led by Alexander Attitude and Kendra Cox, released a new album called Green World Image, built around a satirical take on modern corporate language. Songs use the vocabulary of tech and marketing culture, from "yassifying" to "ROI-ing," to skewer the way that language has crept into everyday life.
The record grew out of the pair's own experience watching Seattle change around them. As tech money has driven up rents and pushed out artists, Attitude and Cox have watched the city's independent identity slip away, a frustration NPR's World Cafe said the band channels into songs that read as clever, cheeky satire doubling as protest music.
Telehealth brought that satire to NPR's World Cafe in person, performing several of the album's songs live for hosts Stephen Kallao and Kimberly Junod, including "Yassify Me," "Donor Country (A gOoD cAuSe)" and "Cool Job."
The band frames Green World Image as both a cry for help and a call to community, using humor as a way into a subject that could easily read as heavy-handed on its own.
That balance, satire sharp enough to sting but grounded in real frustration about a changing hometown, gives the indie and rock record a specific point of view rather than a generic complaint about modern life, and lands it squarely in the release calendar for anyone tracking new guitar music this month.
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- Telehealth released the album Green World Image
- Band members are Alexander Attitude and Kendra Cox
- The album satirizes late-stage capitalism and tech-driven displacement in Seattle
- Telehealth performed songs from the album live for NPR's World Cafe hosts Stephen Kallao and Kimberly Junod
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