User Submitted Album
View Submitter's ProfileAlbum Summary
Deceit is the second and final studio album by English experimental rock band This Heat, released in September 1981 by Rough Trade Records. As with their self-titled debut album, the tracks on Deceit were assembled from largely improvised recordings that the band accumulated since their inception in 1976, with varying degrees of audio quality. However, it is generally considered to be more song-oriented than its largely abstract predecessor. The title is in part a pun on the band's name. Deceit is regarded as a classic of the post-punk era, and was ranked at number 73 on Pitchfork's 2018 list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s".
Read more on Wikipedia
Reviews
The funkiest soundtrack for a nuclear holocaust. I don't even understand how an album can be so disturbing and abrasive, yet filled with genuine bangers at the same time. This Heat definitely deserved a space on the original list on account of being one of the most influential and forward-thinking bands of all time.
Certified classic
Sounds like the individual components of a Cream album fell to pieces and reconstructed themselves in a jagged, unpredictable manner. Incredibly experimental for the 80s, and feels so immediate and modern as a result – not every piece works or justifies its runtime, but the LP as a whole is incredibly textural and exciting. A shame the band dissolved so early into its run, would have loved to hear more from this outfit. Incredible add, thank you for bringing this to everyone’s attention and highlighting what the list should be about.
They lost me when they said most of the tracks were cobbled together from improvised sessions. Slightly better than giving toddlers instruments and recording the outcome but not much.
This album is out there a ways, and like a lot of the stranger albums on this list, I’m here for it!
This is pretty cool. 4 stars.
Spiky and sinewy, dark and discordant. That it was inspired by fears of nuclear holocaust checks out on even the most cursory sort of listen (at least accordingly to this veteran of the nuclear-countdown-clock era). Pretty sophisticated-seeming for 1981, if not The Fall or The Cure, necessarily. And it's overreachingly arty at times, and undeniably all over the place – though compares favorably to, say, Suicide on the one hand and Devo on the other. Not sure it belongs on the list proper – and one's nowhere near ready to claim it one of the top 100 albums of the '80s – but still glad to make its (somewhat discomfiting) acquaintance – so thanks. recommender.
The 2.61 (current) global rating doesn’t suprise me, but this is a cult classic. Something all its own that I think everyone should hear
This is a difficult listen. Not because of the subject matter. Nuclear war was just a part of growing up in the 1980s - as intangible and as nerve-wracking as "going out with a girl", although with the difference of nuclear war being slightly more likely. No, it's difficult to listen to because it has been designed to be difficult to listen to. Given it does exactly what it says on the tin, you kind of need to give it the (Ron)seal of approval. Doesn't make it easy to listen to though.
Certainly notable, and I was hearing shades of later experimental and new wave sounds that marked it out as ahead of its time. Some irritating and obtuse elements too however.
Weird, but not too bad
I did not understand this and it also didn't capture my attention. If it was purely improvised jamming, that would explain a lot.
Experimental rock, post-punk. No me ha gustado... Un 2.
Rating: 5/10
Did not work for me. My personal rating: 2/5 My rating relative to the list: 2/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No
Experimental rock, post-punk. No me ha gustado... Un 2.
This sounds like it was an accident