This Heat - This Heat LP Print Needle tracing a record’s center

Needle tracing a record’s center label

Momentum is impossible to define yet it’s so palpable that the feeling is overwhelming

or tacked on caricature-ish style they are in their approach to amateur rock music that makes them not just another band in the endless sea of music

This is the album that popularized and pushed the term “hardcore” into the common vernacular

The album RAIN is a tribute to the town of Lismore

This Heat - This Heat LP Print Needle tracing a record’s center"There's an irony inherent in the term 'postpunk.' Many of the groups that define the genre (think Pere Ubu or Cabaret Voltaire) existed for several years before punk. But these outfits had little hope of finding an audience until punk stirred up an appetite for the extreme, while also spawning a new breed of independent labels that could support challenging music. "This Heat are a prime example. Formed in early 1976 by drummer Charles Hayward,