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, its messages conflicting and coded but bracingly pure and full of possibility.
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