Out of Cold Storage

by This Heat

Type: Compilation
Released: June 2006
Label: These
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 4:22:43
Community rating: 4.37/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward, Anthony Moore, David Cunningham

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A comprehensive, definitive six-disc box set that gathers the entire, highly radical recorded output of the pioneering British avant-garde rock trio. Operating entirely outside the traditional confines of late-70s punk, the band's terrifying synthesis of brutal tape manipulation, complex polyrhythms, and political paranoia laid the foundational bedrock for post-rock and industrial music. The box set remains a holy grail for experimental music collectors.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, avant-garde, experimental, improvisational, deconstructed

Tracklist

Testcard (0:47)
Horizontal Hold (6:55)
Not Waving (7:25)
Water (3:10)
Twilight Furniture (5:11)
24 Track Loop (5:56)
Diet Of Worms (3:08)
Music Like Escaping Gas (3:40)
Rainforest (2:54)
The Fall Of Saigon (5:09)
Testcard (4:09)
Sleep (2:14)
Paper Hats (6:02)
Triumph (2:55)
S.P.Q.R. (3:28)
Cenotaph (4:39)
Shrinkwrap (1:40)
Radio Prague (2:21)
Makeshift Swahili (4:04)
Independence (3:42)
A New Kind Of Water (4:57)
Hi Baku Shyo (4:03)
Health And Efficiency (8:11)
Graphic/Varispeed (45rpm) (11:21)
Horizontal Hold (8:27)
Not Waving (8:10)
The Fall Of Saigon (6:07)
Rimp Romp Ramp (6:42)
Makeshift (6:17)
Sitting (2:21)
Basement Boy (2:15)
Slither (2:15)
Repeat (20:21)
Metal (23:17)
Graphic/Varispeed (33rpm) (15:27)
Horizontal Hold (5:35)
Paper Hats (5:13)
S.P.Q.R. (3:04)
Triumph (3:44)
Aerial Photography (5:10)
The Rough With The Smooth (1:40)
Makeshift Swahili (3:55)
Music Like Escaping Gas (2:30)
A New Kind Of Water (5:02)
Twilight Furniture (4:39)
Health And Efficiency (6:44)
Nivelles (5:47)

Credits

Laurie-Rae Chamberlain - artwork [colour xerography]
Dave Coppenhall - artwork [cover rebake]
Peter Cobb - painting [health and efficiency]