This HeatBest This Heat Albums Ranked
8.5
Avg Score
5
Opinions
4
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 5 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated This Heat's catalog across 4 albums from 5 opinions, with an overall average of 8.5/10. The top-rated This Heat album is Deceit (1981) with a 8.8/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by This Heat and Health and Efficiency - EP. The discography on Wavelength spans 1977 to 1981.
This Heat
“This Heat perfected a strange and volatile new strain of avant-garde rock—by turns thundering and ephemeral, hopeful and wry, surgically precise and caveman-crude. You can hear in their slim catalog, which returns to wax thanks to these reissues from Light in the Attic, the seeds of vast fields of music that would follow: post-rock, math rock, homemade musique concrète, and experimental electronica.”
Deceit
“This Heat were many things, but popular was never one of them. It's almost funny to see this record getting so much deserved attention recently due to its reissue, because before now, I only knew a few people who had even heard of the thing. It's especially strange to see all the praise in light of Gareth Williams' death on Christmas Eve last year. He wasn't a person who ever really wanted to be f”
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