This Heat

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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.