This Heat ended up being called post-punk for lack of any better options, and though their music has many of the now-familiar hallmarks of that genre -- a heavy dub influence, a fascination with the streamlined metaphysics of German kosmische bands, particularly Can, and complex, heady concepts communicated via primeval methods-- it still stands apart, with something alien and unnamable at its core. Nearly a half-decade after its release, This Heat's entrancing, horrifying and ecstatic self-titled debut still lands like a vision of the end of the world, or at least the end of a world . . .
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