{"product_id":"health-and-efficiency-1","title":"Health and Efficiency","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Health and Efficiency' was originally released in 1981 as a 12\" EP, it foreshadowed the more rock-oriented sound of \u003cem\u003eDeceit\u003c\/em\u003e (1981), the band's second and final album. Taking its name from the long running UK naturist publication this is an off kilter rocker which matches Faust's classic 'It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl' as a piece of avant bootboy stomp. The opening 2 line refrain gives way to a lumbering section driven by proto industrial rhythms, the coda being a deconstruction of the original riff which features Henry Cow's Piano played through a fuzzbox. Essential stuff, the essence of This Heat distilled into eight and a half minutes of joyous noise. The flip 'Graphic \/ Varispeed' was a total contrast, an oddly unsettling electronic drone that (as the title implied) could be played at any speed. This piece could be the birth of illbient; although slow and apparently tranquil, it's an oddly unsettling noise that mutates abruptly from time to time. This is a side of this heat that was rarely in evidence during their lifetime, but which can be sampled further on the excellent album \u003cem\u003eRepeat\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rer Megacorp","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50521868403019,"sku":"274992","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_e4495125-decf-4c1b-9172-251d78219e03.jpg?v=1768557310","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/health-and-efficiency-1","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}