THIS HEAT - Out Of Cold Storage (Repress) - 6CD Box Set [JAN 30]

6CD - Limited Edition Box Set Repress including the band's entire discography, giant full colour 44-page booklet and extensive liner notes.

This Heat: Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward and Gareth Williams emerged as a band in early 1976 on the leading edge of what became the New Wave. But they were always apart, more scary and more subtle. Known as the most left-field, and at the same time most hard-edged, band in the country, their concerts attracted experimental, Punk and New Wave audiences alike. In short, This Heat was a landmark band. It tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. The music was without precedent; the musicians uncompromising; the recordings hammeringly intense and the sound deep, radical, and rich. This was music stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasn't aged.

The Box contains all the material released while they were together, newly re-mastered by surviving members Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen. The five releases were: This Heat (Blue and Yellow), Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Repeat and Made Available. In Addition, compiled and mastered specially for the box, is This Heat Live 80/81, assembled from various concerts in Europe, as well as a definitive 48 page book of newly made interviews and articles, historic photographs, memorabilia and documents that trace the history, and contextualise the work of the group. 

4**** MOJO "Lost peak of avant-punk weirdness repackaged and remastered... a record that still sounds startlingly unique and out of time some 27 years later"

Tracklist: 

This Heat    
Testcard    0:47
Horizontal Hold    6:55
Not Waving    7:25
Water    3:10
Twilight Furniture    5:11
24 Track Loop    5:56
Diet Of Worms    3:08
Music Like Escaping Gas    3:40
Rainforest    2:54
The Fall Of Saigon    5:09
Testcard    4:09

Deceit    
Sleep    2:14
Paper Hats    6:02
Triumph    2:55
S.P.Q.R.    3:28
Cenotaph    4:39
Shrinkwrap    1:40
Radio Prague    2:21
Makeshift Swahili    4:04
Independence    3:42
A New Kind Of Water    4:57
Hi Baku Shyo    4:03

Health And Efficiency    
Health And Efficiency    8:11
Graphic/Varispeed (45rpm)    11:21

Made Available    
Horizontal Hold    8:27
Not Waving    8:10
The Fall Of Saigon    6:07
Rimp Romp Ramp    6:42
Makeshift    6:17
Sitting    2:21
Basement Boy    2:15
Slither    2:15
Repeat    
Repeat    20:21
Metal    23:17
Graphic/Varispeed (33rpm)    15:27

Live 80/81    
Horizontal Hold    5:35
Paper Hats    5:13
S.P.Q.R.    3:04
Triumph    3:44
Aerial Photography    5:10
The Rough With The Smooth    1:40
Makeshift Swahili    3:55
Music Like Escaping Gas    2:30
A New Kind Of Water    5:02
Twilight Furniture    4:39
Health And Efficiency    6:44
Nivelles    
Nivelles    5:47