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Brontosauruses come and go and turn out to have been misnamed and then your humble music bloggers need to remember how to spell "apatosaurus." Triceratops, though, never went out of style. Not unless you count that whole "extinction" thing. Which is to say: HEALTH's "Triceratops", from the noisy LA rockers' self-titled debut LP, has shown up a couple of times around here already, but this live video shot using 13 laptops is cool enough to merit digging the song up again. The usually obscured vocals are actually easier to understand here, as the band spasmodically assault their instruments in an outdoor venue.

We previously wrote of the song: "On 'Triceratops', Los Angeles noise-rock dudes HEALTH thrash out most of what we grew up to expect from Jurassic din: screeches, squawks, guitar growls, insect buzzes, and tribal drums. Some high-voiced cavemen appear to be there, too, chanting, but nobody said music has to be prehistorically accurate. Faster and smarter than scientists once imagined, the track lurches off in new directions several times over the course of about three minutes, with fuzzy musicianship recalling early Deerhoof or current Liars."

Note: Turns out this is an early cut of this video and not the final edit; the clip is part of Dublab.com's forthcoming "VisionVersion Project" and was directed by Saul Levitz.

[original track from HEALTH; out now on Lovepump United]