{"product_id":"deceit-2026-reissue","title":"Deceit (2026 Reissue)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis Heat’s second album from 1981 is much more verbally direct than their largely instrumental 1979 debut. The group had things on their minds and statements they wanted to make. ‘The first album was about the Dread, but dread not really understood yet,’ says Charles Hayward. ‘With the second album, we were starting to understand what made us afraid. The whole of Deceit was about nuclear war. There was a policy of nuclear deterrence forged by our elders and betters called Mutually Assured Destruction. They were so crazy they couldn’t see that they’d identified their own policy as M.A.D.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“‘Sleep, sleep, sleep \/ Go to sleep’ are the first words you hear on Deceit. For This Heat, mass media, advertising and escapist pop culture tranquilize the population—turning active citizens into passive consumers. ‘A life of ease ... cocooned in a routine of food,’ they chide on the opening track, before stealing the slogan from a TV commercial for fabric softener—‘Softness is a thing called comfort.’ As with their peers Scritti Politti and The Pop Group, resistance involves not just confrontational lyrics, but sonic strategies: grating textures and jarring rhythms that jolt you into hyper-vigilant alertness.“While Deceit is a post punk classic, it’s also the album where the band’s roots in pre-punk progressive underground comes through clearest, combining expansive musicianship with DIY primitivism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAfter the release of the album, Williams decided he wanted to take a year off and travel in India. Bullen and Hayward attempted to perform live using new recruits, but the chemistry wasn’t there. ‘We did a five-week tour of Europe and after that we knew This Heat was going to finish. It’s a shame. Because we could have gone on forever.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSleep  \u003cbr\u003ePaper Hats  \u003cbr\u003eTriumph  \u003cbr\u003eS.P.Q.R.  \u003cbr\u003eCenotaph  \u003cbr\u003eShrinkwrap  \u003cbr\u003eRadio Prague  \u003cbr\u003eMakeshift Swahili  \u003cbr\u003eIndependence  \u003cbr\u003eA New Kind of Water  \u003cbr\u003eHi Baku Shyo (Suffer Bomb Disease)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SRD","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":67612843147581,"sku":"TH03LP","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0096\/1884\/9839\/files\/TH03LP.jpg?v=1790842631","url":"https:\/\/sisterray.co.uk\/products\/deceit-2026-reissue","provider":"Sister Ray","version":"1.0","type":"link"}