This Heat - Live 80-81Formed in 1976 in Brixton, a multicultural, and at the time down at heel part of south London, This Heat were born into a music scene in rapid flux, first thanks to the punk explosion and then via new wave and its myriad offshoots into pop, rock and art rock. But while many sought to apply punk attitude to chart friendly sounds, This Heat were concocting some of the most experimental ideas ever committed to tape, taking influence from musique concrte,

The Guardian (4 stars)

Nanci Griffith

ossification

and it's anything but a cop-out: in addition to resurrecting the best elements from their past

The Walk 5

Country music is big in Africa

A Frequency

The vinyl edition is housed in a 2xLP set that includes detailed artwork and two essays by Leon

Characters travel in search of some truth or revelation

which was pretty out of tune

Zeke's "Box"

titled 'No Pier Pressure'