This Heat - Deceit
Where to begin with this record? It's a masterpiece on so many levels. As polyglot process music, Dadaist cut-up, mutant dub or as deep (South West London) topography. It's a collage record, much like The Faust Tapes, where every element is assembled like a physical object from contrasting sources. The way 'Makeshift Swahili' cuts from studio separation to supercharged Dictaphone crush is thrilling. Impossible to imitate and yet they informed so much in contemporary music. They were a true punk band and an inversion of English heraldry. Grumbling Fur are sometimes compared to This Heat in the press; Alex and I are always humbled by that observation.