{"product_id":"this-heat-deceit","title":"This Heat - Deceit","description":"\u003ctable style=\"width: 329px; height: 79.3752px;\" height=\"103\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 20.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 150.641px; height: 20.5938px;\"\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 162.359px; height: 20.5938px;\"\u003e13\/11\/2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 150.641px; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eFormat\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 162.359px; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eLP Black\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 150.641px; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eLabel\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 162.359px; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eThis Heat Records\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 150.641px; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eCatalogue Number\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 162.359px; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eTH03LP\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Classic second album reissued by the group’s own new imprint This Heat Records.\u003cbr\u003e*24 bit\/96 kHz re-master from original analog tapes.\u003cbr\u003e*180 gram heavyweight vinyl and heavyweight sleeve with pantone printing to match\u003cbr\u003eoriginal 1981 release.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Over the years, there have been bands to play as aggressively, or even as strangely, but\u003cbr\u003every few have been able to rise from their collective influences and histories to create\u003cbr\u003emusic so singularly distinctive and inspiring.’ – Pitchfork 9\/10 (+ #73 on Pitchfork\u0026amp;#39;s 2018\u003cbr\u003elist of The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘‘This Heat sounded like the future then ... and still do now.’ - Dan Snaith (Caribou)\u003cbr\u003e‘This Heat had a certain kind of force the post-punk bands were unable to adequately\u003cbr\u003econtrol without falling foul of rawk excess, and which the punk bands—albeit blitzing\u003cbr\u003eand rowdy—were too basic in form to build.’ – John Calvert , The Quietus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimon Reynolds on Deceit:\u003cbr\u003eThis Heat’s second album from 1981 is much more verbally direct than their largely\u003cbr\u003einstrumental 1979 debut. The group had things on their minds and statements they\u003cbr\u003ewanted to make. ‘The first album was about the Dread, but dread not really understood\u003cbr\u003eyet,’ says Charles Hayward. ‘With the second album, we were starting to understand\u003cbr\u003ewhat made us afraid. The whole of Deceit was about nuclear war. There was a policy of\u003cbr\u003enuclear deterrence forged by our elders and betters called Mutually Assured Destruction.\u003cbr\u003eThey were so crazy they couldn’t see that they’d identified their own policy as M.A.D.’\u003cbr\u003e“‘Sleep, sleep, sleep \/ Go to sleep’ are the first words you hear on Deceit. For This Heat,\u003cbr\u003emass media, advertising and escapist pop culture tranquilize the population—turning\u003cbr\u003eactive citizens into passive consumers. ‘A life of ease ... cocooned in a routine of food,’ they chide on the opening track, before stealing the slogan from a TV commercial for fabric softener—‘Softness is a thing called comfort.’ As with their peers Scritti Politti an \u003cbr\u003eThe Pop Group, resistance involves not just confrontational lyrics, but sonic strategies:\u003cbr\u003egrating textures and jarring rhythms that jolt you into hyper-vigilant alertness.“While\u003cbr\u003eDeceit is a post punk classic, it’s also the album where the band’s roots in pre-punk\u003cbr\u003eprogressive underground comes through clearest, combining expansive musicianship\u003cbr\u003ewith DIY primitivism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the release of the album, Williams decided he wanted to take a year off and travel\u003cbr\u003ein India. Bullen and Hayward attempted to perform live using new recruits, but the chemistry wasn’t there. ‘We did a five-week tour of Europe and after that we knew This Heat was going to finish. It’s a shame. Because we could have gone on forever.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Sleep \u003cbr\u003e2. Paper Hats \u003cbr\u003e3. Triumph \u003cbr\u003e4. S.P.Q.R.\u003cbr\u003e5. Cenotaph \u003cbr\u003e6. Shrinkwrap \u003cbr\u003e7. Radio Prague\u003cbr\u003e8. Makeshift Swahili \u003cbr\u003e9. Independence \u003cbr\u003e10. A New Kind of Water \u003cbr\u003e11. 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