Bleep

Near-mythical legendary post-punk/art-punk group This Heat's one and only 12" single 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. Across the two albums released by the group This Heat managed to sculpt a most singular of sounds, avant-garde, spiky post-punk with an artistic edge all enclosed with an art-dub edge that propelled them to legendary status among those who discovered their music. Health and Efficiency is the twenty minute follow up and bridge of sorts between the debut This Heat and follow up Deceit, across its twenty or so minutes the group found them selves in a groove that sculpted a mix of avant-garde, spiky post-punk and dub with a bit of drone thrown in for balance. The eight minute title track was composed from an improvisation that was part Jah Wobble PiL dub and part Holger Jaki Liebezeit rolling rhythm but executed with a feeling of the finest late night Hannett feel . On the other side Graphic/Varispeed moved into a more eyes-down drone subsidiary, a slowly ever-evolving loop in the finest looking back glazed over feeling (the track was composed from parts of 24 Track Loop from the debut LP) while the original attention was for this 12" to be able to be listened to at 33, 45 or 78RPM which when you consider this came out in 1980 is a testament to the forward thinking and the tireless innovation of This Heat.