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Green World Image on CD

The Kalshi app is a "prediction market for trading the future," a platform allowing users to gamble on the outcome of almost any real-world event - from the accuracy of the weather forecast, to whether or not famine will officially be declared in Gaza. Joining CNN as the network's official betting partner in late 2025, platform co-founder Tarek Mansour was quoted after the deal saying, "The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradeable asset out of any difference in opinion." Telehealth was forged in the opportunity-rich environment of post-COVID Seattle as a scalable music startup with similar goals. Co-founded in 2022 by married couple and fellow gambling enthusiasts Alexander Attitude (synths/vox/guitar) and Kendra Cox (synths/vox), and joined by longtime collaborators Ian McCutcheon (drums), John O'Connor (bass), and Dillon Sturtevant (guitar), the group aims to financialize any difference of opinion over how the in-shambles local "music scene" should proceed. Can you be DIY and have good SEO? Can one earn progressive cultural cachet and hard cash at the same time? Is art funded by tech industry "culture grants" kind of a bummer, authentically gorpcore (young men are embracing the "quarter-zip lifestyle" according to the New York Times), or ironically punk? For Telehealth, the answer to these questions aren't yes or no, but rather, an untapped gap in the music market waiting for a band visionary and unhinged enough to bet on the spread. Produced by Trevor Spencer, Green World Image, Telehealth's sophomore LP (following debut LP Content Oscillator and a Sub Pop Singles Club release, both from 2023), and it's IPO with angel investors Sub Pop, is a vertically-integrated artwork for the post-grunge, post-flannel Seattleite, and consumers around the globe who are also ready to financialize their own passion for music. Trauma-informed, results-driven, and eminently danceable, the weirdo punk record is inspired by Attitude's tenure as a former architect in a Climate Pledged™ city that has perfected the art of "Green World" architecture with it's network of efficiently zoned 5-over-1s. Telehealth's PNW post-punk creates similar architectural spaces, where the gleaming, futuristic, tech-industrial rhythms and synths of Bezos-era Seattle commingle with the raw, independent, underground sound the city lovingly preserves for cultural texture and marketing purposes. The outcome? Think XTC, REM, and YMO with a stronger focus on ROI. Imagine The B-52s, but B2B. Envision a bigger-brained Brainiac, a transhuman Gary Numan, or a terminally online Pylon. Finally, a band with assets diverse enough to play in your basement or the Amazon Spheres.