Bleep

Near-mythical legendary post-punk/art-punk group This Heat's debut album has been finally brought out of cold storage and made available again on deluxe remastered vinyl, produced in collaboration with surviving band members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward. Recorded between February 1976 and September 1978, This Heat's debut album (sometimes referred to as) Blue/Yellow or 'This Heat' was conceived as an underground classic from the off, at a time when groups were sticking the V's up and throwing down three chords and you have a tune, the trio of Gareth Williams, Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward spent two years perfecting their debut recordings in the group's Brixton based converted storage room studio aptly named cold storage. The sounds found within are almost as difficult as knowing what to call the LP, a heady dose of post-punk, industrial experimentation and improvisation avant-garde but all executed with a sense of funk that resonated from the dub being played out in the groups surroundings. Composed of tape loops, found sounds, and hectic electronics that has gone on to gestate in the minds of those who know and has shown influence across the board from artists like Hot Chip and Caribou to labels such as Blackest Ever Black (who released This Heat member Gareth Williams's Flaming Tunes album on vinyl a few years back) This Heat are the crucial dot connecting the UK industrial movement of groups like Throbbing Gristle and the German new wave of Can and Faust and now forty years after its original release and out of print since then it can finally receive the recognition (and place in many record collections) it truly deserves.