“Our house is, like, half an office right now,” said Alexander Barr over Zoom on a sunny morning in late April. Barr — a founding member of the Seattle band Telehealth — was seated next to Kendra Cox, his wife and the group’s fellow progenitor, on their Capitol Hill living room’s forest-green couch, which had a body pillow on top of it that resembled the Wicked Witch of the West’s arm, replete with red-painted nails and a gold bracelet. The two were about to embark on a tour promoting the band’s second album, “Green World Image”; Barr panned his laptop’s camera to show the stacks of record- and merch-stuffed boxes strewn about, ready to be unpacked at future live stops. But the slightly stressful temporary disorder felt worth it. “(We) can’t wait to get on the road and play music for people and share the record,” Poulsbo-bred Cox said.

Some second albums suffer from the so-called sophomore slump; May 15’s Green World Image, the follow-up to Telehealth’s relatively minimalist debut, 2023’s Content Oscillator, isn’t among them. It’s a fairly comprehensive step up buoyed by a more expansive live-band approach, shinier production, and sharpened lyrics. 

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