If it’s true that most bands wear their influences on their sleeves, Ohio quintet For Your Health would need a wardrobe-ful of graphs, bars, flowcharts, scatter plots and Venn Diagrams. The genre-bending group’s singularity rests in these multitudes. Their frenetic, wonky and utterly unhinged songs have a strange effect – they remind you of something for a split second, before switching gears completely into a new terror, both painfully nostalgic and completely unique.

Much like their 2021 effort, In Spite Of, the band’s new LP, This Bitter Garden, is deathly allergic to maintained tempos, time signatures and other such puritan musical implications. Mad-eyed, wobbly-kneed and froth-mouthed, the album is an omnivorous display of a group of people who probably spent as much time listening to Moss Icon as they did Fleetwood Mac. They pack a shocking amount of turns into these short unsettled songs, resulting in a disorienting and addictive listen – there seems to be a hundred instruments, a dozen vocalists and a triptych of double albums’ worth of ideas roiling in This Bitter Garden, and it’ll take many tries for the listener to unpack everything For Your Health throw at the walls.

“Flowers for the Worst of Them” kicks off as a fizzing post-hardcore number, then dives abruptly into a beatific acoustic interlude before sliding into melodic emo and then fading out by restaging the progression of the interlude for piano, all over the span of three-odd minutes. “The Rotting Pair” staggers and lurches in doom-fused industrial brutality for its first half, before transitioning into earworm pop punk with inexplicable fluency.

And things only gets more and more crazed as you venture further. On This Bitter Garden, For Your Health build a plot of rotten vegetation, a world so distinct and desolate, it’s impossible not to want to take a peek.