| Good Health | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Pretty Girls Make Graves |
| Cover: | Good-health-by-pretty-girls-make-graves.jpg |
| Released: | April 9, 2002 |
| Recorded: | December 2001 |
| Studio: | Robert Lang Studios |
| Length: | 27:37 |
| Label: | Lookout Records |
| Producer: | Phil Ek and Pretty Girls Make Graves |
| Prev Title: | Pretty Girls Make Graves |
| Prev Year: | 2001 |
| Next Title: | The New Romance |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
Good Health is the first studio album by Pretty Girls Make Graves. Originally released in 2002 by Lookout Records, it was re-released by Matador Records with an additional 4 songs made up of the band's first self-titled EP. This album is often mistakenly referred to as Is It Broken, Doctor? on some internet discussion boards and file-sharing services due to the inclusion of that phrase on the cover of the album, on which the actual title is not present.
Musically, Good Health has been aligned with punk, indie rock, emo, and "twitchy" post-hardcore akin to The Nation of Ulysses.
In a 20th anniversary review, Stereogums Tom Breihan dubbed Health "28 delirious minutes [that are] enough to leave you breathless and stirred." He positively called its sound "fast and urgent and adrenaline-charged", as well as "rich and dynamic."[1] In a 2022 retrospective list by BrooklynVegan, it placed #33 out of 35 of 2002's best emo & post-hardcore albums. The site's Andrew Sacher wrote that the group "came out of the gate swinging" on the record and that, 20 years on, its tracks "still pack a refreshing punch."[2]