This Heat - Deceit

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#121) This Heat - Deceit (1981)

 1. Sleep
 2. Paper Hats
 3. Triumph
 4. S.P.Q.R.
 5. Cenotaph
 6. Shrink Rap
 7. Radio Prague
 8. Makeshift Swahili
 9. Independence
 10. A New Kind Of Water
 11. Hi Baku Shyo

for April's End of Month Theme Adam chose Bands the Other Person Got You Into. he picks a band i got him into, i pick a band he got me into.
i went with This Heat. he first brought up This Heat for his February End of Month Theme post, where he talked about their first album. i then chose that album for a Crossover in March. (check out his post and my post) both of us really dug the album.

Deceit is their 2nd full length and is quite different. while it's still very experimental it's more rock oriented. this is probably where people started seeing them as a post-punk band. singing is waaay more prevalent on this album. on the self titled there were only a couple tracks that had vocals while the rest were experimental instrumentals, here it's the opposite. there are only 2 tracks that don't have vocals. the range of vocals is all over the place as all 3 band members sing/scream/chant/whatever, sometimes all at once.
the album sounds fantastic, all the crazy instrumentation and noise comes through perfectly. this album could've been made yesterday.
i liked this album every bit as much as i liked the first, probably even a bit more. so thank you adam, for bringing these English weirdos into my life.