Gut Health aren’t here to play it safe – they’re here to sweat it out under club lights, stilettos on, hearts racing.
Off the back of two nominations at the 2025 Rolling Stone Australia Awards (Best New Artist among them) and a spot on Rolling Stone AU/NZ’s Future of Music 2025 list, the dance-punk outfit have dropped a rework of their album’s title track – courtesy of Naarm club mainstay DJ PGZ.
“This one’s all about cross-genre admiration,” the band say. “A tribute to our friends in Naarm’s underground club world that some of us grew up around.”
Known for his razor-sharp sets and community-first approach, PGZ takes “Stiletto’s” already-motorik pulse and spins it into a full-blown late-night epiphany.
Gut Health say working with him “just felt right,” and now the song sounds like it was always meant for the dancefloor.
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Gut Health feature in our Future of Music 2025 list, which shines a light on the artists shaping the future of music across Australia and Aotearoa.
“Australia – Melbourne in particular – is spoiled for choice when it comes to wiry and angular punk bands. So what makes Gut Health stand out?
“Put on their debut album Stiletto for just three minutes and you’ll understand. That’s roughly how long it takes to play the thrilling opener “Uh oh”, which begins as Gut Health mean to go on: all explosive energy, excitable sprechgesang, and some of the best dance-punk hooks since the mid-2000s,” we wrote.
“In Athina Uh Oh, they have a seriously formidable frontperson, one who recalls Life Without Building’s lively lead vocalist Sue Tompkins. Stiletto is the type of debut album that won’t just break Gut Health out of Melbourne – it should also catapult the sextet to global renown in rock and punk circles.”
Read an interview with DJ PGZ here.
Gut Health’s “Stiletto” DJ PGZ remix is out now.
