This Heat

This Heat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Recommended Records
• ASIN: B000CQKY2G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,531 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This band emerged in 1976 on the edge of new wave. Remastered this legendary album and landmark release lays down new rules. The music is without a doubt deep, radical and rich. Repackaged by the group. RER. 2006.

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rerelease this album now!, August 5, 2000

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M. G. James - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Heat (Audio CD)

It's ooh, I don't know 1979 or something like that and my friend Rob (who had his arm in a sling) and I are heading down to Kent in a Mini. We stop off in London, at the (long-demolished) Clarendon Hotel (which boasted TWO masonic temples) in Hammersmith. In rooms where years later I would shout drunken abuse at Natalie Merchant, we witnessed one of the most remarkable gigs of my life. It was the hottest day of the year. First up were the Furious Pigs, a largely vocal group who did some remarkable things with cardboard tubes. Then the sublime Young Marble Giants charmed us with sounds that still sound fresh two decades later.

Then This Heat...sonic stormtroopers...beyond punk, beyond industrial...schrecklickkeit hits the suburbs. These recordings are the closest you will ever get to the sonic assault I endured that evening. The Fall of Saigon is the greatest ballad of post-imperialist retrenchment ever written.."we ate Soda, the embassy cat..." How did music with so much momentum peter out?

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SINGULAR AND UNTOUCHABLE, May 2, 2002

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Kerry Leimer (Makawao, Hawaii United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Heat (Audio CD)

Why stuff like this never gets recognized is beyond me. If you take some of the stellar moments from Faust, drop them onto a factory floor and infuse it with a fierce kind of intelligence, you get one of the best recordings ever made. Not that This Heat compares with anything before or since. Mad and stunningly beautiful, hoarse and smooth, sparse and lush, this stuff can only be the concious recognition of an utterly unconcious music: close your eyes and see the order within the chaos.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intense, menacing, fascinating, and mysterious, January 21, 2006

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Michael W. Draine (Acton, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Heat (Audio CD)

While Charles Hayward had played drums in the space-rock/fusion group Quiet Sun (with Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno), Hayward hit his stride in the avant-garde trio This Heat. Emerging in Brixton early 1976, This Heat quickly became recognized as one of the most experimental and hard-edged ensembles in Britain. This Heat's 1979 debut LP offered whirlwind of tape loops, bracing rhythms, pre-sampling musique concrete, delivered with commitment and authority. While Hayward's chilling, mordant vocals are deployed sparingly on the band's distinctive blue and yellow sleeved debut, "Twilight Furniture" and "The Fall of Saigon" presage the strong songwriting that distinguished follow-up group, The Camberwell Now. Every bit as musically and politically relevant today as upon its original release, This Heat's self titled album should captivate fans of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, early Public Image Limited and the more daring varieties of electronica.