You know, I guess maybe it was Roadburn that put me on to all-lowercase atmospheric heavies healthyliving, as the band played their first show ever at the rightly venerated Dutch festival; a singular honor for an underground act of any stripe. And you know what else, that shit would be the first line in my bio too. Pretty much forever.

And when it came to the record — that being their debut, Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief (review here) — I dug it a lot. It’ll be on my year-end debuts list, I look forward to the next one, on and on. Listening to it again as I write this, I’m glad to be revisiting it, though that makes it sound like it’s been forever and it only came out a few months ago. Weird living in an utterly saturated market in which somehow nobody makes any money.

This isn’t the longest UK tour you’ve ever seen, but they’re going from Glasgow to London the next night, so respect for the seven and a half hours in the car that day, though if I was tour managing we’d cut out of Glasgow asap after the show and start the drive south, stop somewhere cheap but not too creeper if possible for the night and pick up in the morning. Actually, if I look at the four shows, it’s kind of a wild routing, starting in the southwest UK on the inland coast, heading north for successive nights in Manchester and Glasgow and then swinging all the way down to London the last night, further south than was Newport, if not by much, but considerably further east. It’s not even close to the craziest shit I’ve ever seen, but neither would I call it easy.

The PR wire brought details, links, dates, all sorts of fun stuff:

healthyliving announce UK tour w/ Dawnwalker

Following on from their debut live performance at Roadburn in Tilburg this year and recent set at the inaugural edition of Core. in Glasgow, doomy noise/post-rock act healthyliving will embark on a co-headlining UK tour alongside post-metal band Dawnwalker in December.

healthyliving, the transnational collective across Scotland, Spain, and Germany, released their debut album, Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief, in April of this year, garnering significant critical acclaim. Joining them on tour is London-based Dawnwalker, lauded for their unique blend of prog and post-metal. Dawnwalker is currently on tour supporting their 2022 album, House of Sands, their darkest and most human to date. Together, the bands offer up a series of nights of unique heavy and emotive music with handpicked supports for each show.

healthyliving + Dawnwalker December UK Tour:
07 Dec – Le Pub – Newport (w/ Goat Major)
08 Dec – Retro Bar – Manchester (w/ Deathbloom)
09 Dec – The Flying Duck – Glasgow (w/ Cwfen)
10 Dec – The Black Heart – London (w/ Codex Serafini)

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/DWHLTour

healthyliving is the project of long-time collaborators and friends Scott McLean (Ashenspire, Falloch), Stefan Pötzsch and Amaya López-C (Maud the moth). Having worked on various musical projects together for years, their artistic and personal connection coalesced organically and fuelled a small transnational collective across Scotland, Spain and Germany. healthyliving emerges to honour this natural connection; something which is reflected in the simplicity, rawness and immediateness of their approach to songwriting. Artistically, the band draws from the beauty and horror of the mundane to create a kaleidoscopic and evocative musical world that commutes across genre borders.

Stream Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief on your preferred digital media AT THIS LOCATION: https://linktr.ee/healthylivingband

ORDER Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief on vinyl, CD, or Digital on BANDCAMP: https://healthylivingband.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-abundance-psalms-of-grief

healthyliving is:
Amaya López Carromero – Vocals
Scott McLean – Guitars, Bass, Synth
Stefan Pötzsch – Drums
Andrés Ramos — bass (live)

https://www.facebook.com/healthylivingband
https://www.instagram.com/healthylivingband/
https://healthylivingband.bandcamp.com/

Healthyliving, Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief (2023)

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