Health and Efficiency

by This Heat

Health and Efficiency cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Piano
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 19:31
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Gareth Williams, Charles Hayward, Charles Bullen, David Cunningham

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Offering a surprisingly bright and rhythmic contrast to the dark avant-garde atmosphere of their debut album, this release is driven by relentless tape loops and motorik beats. The title track functions as a sprawling, energetic exercise in repetition and improvisation. It remains a fascinating historical document of the trio's ability to fuse complex studio trickery with live rock instrumentation.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, noisy, repetitive, rhythmic, avant-garde, sampling

Tracklist

  1. Health and Efficiency (8:06)
  2. Graphic/Varispeed (45 RPM) (11:25)

Credits

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