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With their debut album and follow-up maxi single “Health & Efficiency”, This Heat<\/strong> sowed the seeds of post-punk, avant rock, noise rock and post-rock, placing the trio \u2013 Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (drums, keyboards, vocals, tapes) and Gareth Williams (keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, tapes) \u2013 at the forefront of experimental music.<\/p>\n

However, 1981\u2019s “Deceit”<\/strong> 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. \u201cAt the beginning of the \u201980s, global events were taking a bad path with the USA defense policy Star Wars against Russia\u2019s Evil Empire and the aptly named Mutually Assured Destruction,\u201d remembers Hayward in the liner notes accompanying this long-overdue remaster. \u201cWe made a shift towards song.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recorded in a variety of studios including the band\u2019s 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 \u201charvested\u201d from TV commercials (\u201cSleep\u201d), others described the curtain-twitching of surveillance society (\u201cTriumph\u201d), and some were screamed with raw, ragged abandon, like on \u201cMakeshift Swahili\u201d. \u201cMakeshift was a big learning situation for me,” says Hayward. \u201cI 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” <\/strong>idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musical innovations abound too \u2013 drum tracks were recycled from other recordings, albeit in manipulated and mutated form, and \u201cIndependence\u201d reverses the melody of earlier track \u201cFall Of Saigon\u201d. It\u2019s an album whose themes and sounds unfurl before the listener, the mood of edgy, pre-apocalyptic tension growing throughout. Says Hayward: \u201cI still think of this record as a dream within a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

This Heat<\/strong> 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 \u2013 Williams died of cancer within a month of them meeting to rehearse.<\/p>\n

Celebrating This Heat<\/strong>\u2019s 40th anniversary in 2016, Modern Classics Recordings<\/strong>\u00a0re-issued the band\u2019s catalog \u2013 1979\u2019s This Heat<\/strong>, 1980\u2019s “Health and Efficiency”<\/strong>, and 1981\u2019s “Deceit”<\/strong> \u2013 with full co-operation of surviving members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward. Four decades on, the tireless efforts of This Heat\u2019s process can once again be a revelation for new audiences.<\/p>\n

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With their debut album and follow-up maxi single “Health & Efficiency”, This Heat<\/strong> sowed the seeds of post-punk, avant rock, noise rock and post-rock, placing the trio \u2013 Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (drums, keyboards, vocals, tapes) and Gareth Williams (keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, tapes) \u2013 at the forefront of experimental music.<\/p>\n

However, 1981\u2019s “Deceit”<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

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