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This Heat
Deceit
Format: LP
Record Label: Modern Classics Recordings/Light In The Attic
Condition: New (sealed)
*
High quality reissue of their 1981 album - 24 bit/96 kHz
remastered from the original analog tapes - housed in a Stoughton
"tip-on" jacket - includes booklet with track notes and archival photos.
* With their debut album and follow-up maxi single Health & Efficiency,
This Heat sowed the seeds of post-punk, avant rock, noise rock and
post-rock, placing the trio - Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola,
vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (drums, keyboards, vocals, tapes) and
Gareth Williams (keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, tapes) - at the
forefront of experimental music. However, 1981’s Deceit is the one that truly deserves its
reputation as a classic of the post-punk era, tying up the myriad
threads of their work so far and adding accessibility and melody to the
still furiously forward-thinking sound. "At the beginning of the ’80s,
global events were taking a bad path with the USA
defense policy Star Wars against Russia’s Evil Empire and the aptly
named Mutually Assured Destruction," remembers Hayward in the liner
notes accompanying this long-overdue remaster. “We made a shift towards
song.” Recorded in a variety of studios including the band’s own Cold
Storage and the Zipper Mobile unit hired from an ad in British paper
Melody Maker, the 11 tracks put that sense of social anxiety and global
paranoia to the fore. Some lyrics were "harvested" from TV commercials
("Sleep"), others described the curtain-twitching of surveillance
society ("Triumph"), and some were screamed with raw, ragged abandon,
like on "Makeshift Swahili". "Makeshift was a big learning situation for
me," says Hayward. "I learned to let go with my voice, to release the
energy that each song required, no matter where that might lead. The
song, about the collapse of language, was central to the Deceit idea." Musical innovations abound too - drum tracks were recycled from other
recordings, albeit in manipulated and mutated form, and "Independence"
reverses the melody of earlier track "Fall Of Saigon". It’s an album
whose themes and sounds unfurl before the listener, the mood of edgy,
pre-apocalyptic tension growing throughout. Says Hayward: “I still think
of this record as a dream within a dream." This Heat split a year after the release, with Bullen and Hayward
completing the final tour without Williams. Hayward went on to form
Camberwell Now and Bullen recorded as Lifetones. A tentative 2001
reunion came, tragically, too late- Williams died of cancer within a
month of them meeting to rehearse. Celebrating This Heat’s 40th anniversary in 2016, Modern Classics Recordings will re-issue the band’s catalog - 1979’s This Heat, 1980’s Health And Efficiency, and 1981’s Deceit - with full co-operation of surviving members Charles Bullen and
Charles Hayward. Four decades on, the tireless efforts of This Heat’s
process can once again be a revelation for new audiences.
* The first time I heard This Heat was their track "Sleep" in
the early 2000s, and it sounded so fresh then, more than 20 years on
from its release, that I thought it was a newly released record. I
couldn’t believe one band had an imagination this broad and this
incandescent. For me they stand out from their peers at the time by a
mile and it’s a crime that their music hasn’t seen a proper vinyl
reissue since its release. This Heat sounded like the future then... and still do now. (Dan Snaith / Caribou)
* Track Listing: Sleep / Paper Hats / Triumph / S.P.Q.R. / Cenotaph / Shrinkwrap / Radio Prague / Makeshift Swahili / Independence / A New Kind Of Water / Hibakushyo
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