This Heat ‎– Deceit
Label:
Rough Trade ‎– ROUGH 26
Format:
Album 
Country:
UK
Released:
1981
Genre:
Electronic, Rock
Style:
Alternative Rock, Punk, Avantgarde, Experimental

Track listing[edit]
All songs written and composed by This Heat (Charles Hayward, Gareth Williams, Charles Bullen). 

No.	Title	Length	
1.	"Sleep"  	2:13
2.	"Paper Hats"  	5:57
3.	"Triumph"  	2:55
4.	"S. P. Q. R."  	3:26
5.	"Cenotaph"  	4:35
6.	"Shrink Wrap"  	1:40
7.	"Radio Prague"  	2:21
8.	"Makeshift Swahili"  	4:04
9.	"Independence"  	3:39
10.	"A New Kind of Water"  	4:57
11.	"Hi Baku Shyo (Suffer Bomb Disease)"  	4:03


In a 1991 interview, Charles Hayward explained that the threat of nuclear warfare motivated the band and provided the 

album with an underlying theme: "The whole speak, 'Little Boy', 'Big Boy' [sic], calling missiles cute little names. The 

whole period was mad! We had a firm belief that we were going to die and the record was made on those terms.… The whole 

thing was designed to express this sort of fear, angst, which the group was all about, really."[2] The album's subject 

matter also deals with war and imperialism.[3] The cover art reflects these concerns, and includes a photomontage of 

images such as mushroom clouds, thematic maps depicting nuclear arsenals and photographs of Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev 

and Nikita Khrushchev.

As with other This Heat recordings, much of the album was recorded at Cold Storage, a disused refrigerated storeroom at a 

former meat pie factory in Acre Lane, Brixton, England.[4] The music included new improvisations along with songs the band 

had been playing during live performances (portions of these songs were culled from actual concert recordings).[2][4] As 

Hayward describes, "some of the album was really plush sounding, some dim and pokey. Sometimes it would sound like the 

machinery was breaking up. We deliberately would make it sound as though the record player was exploding."[2][a]