Lifetones - For A Reason

Charles Bullen (This Heat`s guitarist) started listening to some reggae music after a DJ friend of his turned him on to it. after the Deceit sessions he decided to start a project based on these caribbean rhythms and took it to a whole new level. inspiring lyrics, epic ras drum tracks, weird/beautiful harmonies and some chant-style voices that you would hear on any This Heat record. this is some serious stuff. its a rare listen at first but it sucks you in.

is it because i acted badly to you, you acted badly to me and i acted badly to you? or viceversa?

This Heat - Health and Efficiency

might as well have the whole this heat discography here at chasm-filler studios. this short EP shows a side of this heat that was not known by many.

chasm0!

This Heat - This Heat

this is the first this heat album ever, released in 1978. one hell of a masterpiece by this skillful trio. may the legacy of this band resonate through the depths of space and time.

horizontal hold

Camberwell Now - All`s Well

This Heat ended their musical experiments with their album Repeat. Well, actually, the John Peel sessions and other live bootlegs surfaced the music world years later. But after ending This Heat, drummer Charles Hayward and bassist Trefor Goronwy joined their former sound technician Stephen Rickard who brought with him a "tape switchboard" that made sure the stage they were playing sounded exactly like the recording studio. The lineup? drums, bass, keys and... umm.. a sound engineer? sounds pretty interesting huh? it sure is.


bitchin` nice.

This Heat - Made Available: The John Peel Sessions 1977

just imagine seeing this band live by this era.
this is the closest we are going to get.
recorded in 1977, released in 1980.

que boys.

This Heat - Deceit

I discovered this like two days ago and i still can`t tell you how mind blowing this album is. The shit is amazing. The following is taken directly from wikipedia:

"This Heat were active in the ascendancy of British progressive rock and punk rock, but stood apart from those scenes due to a radically inventive approach that touched on numerous different styles and genres, but was always confrontational and politically charged. Their commercial success was limited, but This Heat are widely considered a missing link between progressive rock (especially krautrock) and such later experimental genres as post punk, post rock and noise rock."

I guess Slint was pretty influenced by these dudes as well.