History Music / Deceit

* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: "A New Kind of Water" even references [[Literature/TheBible Isaiah 22:13]] right at the beginning: "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow, we die".

Musically, [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly it's a very difficult album to categorise]], as it incorporates elements of ProgressiveRock, folk, free jazz, gamelan, field recordings and even ElectronicMusic; its raw production and diverse sound earned it something of a kinship with the PostPunk movement, which took in similar influences. Whilst the album didn't deviate too much from the experimentation of the band's earlier work, it's argued that the introduction of more recognisable song structures on ''Deceit'' allowed the group to articulate their message much more clearly than before.

!!"We are all tropers, [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife we live to regret it]]":

* UsefulNotes/ThePoppy: "Cenotaph".
* PoorCommunicationKills: "Makeshift Swahili".
* ProtestSong: Of the most fatalistic possible kind.

* UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire: "S.P.Q.R.".

* LighterAndSofter / NewSoundAlbum: When compared with their bleak, drone-heavy debut, ''Deceit'' is a lot more upbeat and focused on songs rather than sound collages. That being said, it's still really dark compared to most other albums.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Probably at level 8. The lyrics aren't that explicit even by the standards of the day, but they're relentlessly bleak and nihilistic.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A 6 or a 7 at its heaviest by today's standards, but at the time it came out it was a ''hard'' 10.

* PowerTrio: Charles Bullen is TheSpock, Charles Hayward is TheMcCoy, Gareth Williams is TheKirk.

* HistoryRepeats: "S.P.Q.R." and "Cenotaph" both despairingly look at how civilisation can't to seem avoid getting into wars, no more how many times it's happened over the course of history. The latter even namechecks this trope word for word.

Happily, by the end of the decade, tensions between countries had eased and nobody got blown up, but at that point This Heat had already called it a day a few years prior. Whilst changing tastes in music had left ''Deceit'' (and the rest of This Heat's music in general) largely underground, its' unorthodox song structures, uniquely DIY, collage-like approach to production and political leanings have developed a following in later years, and is considered an early precursor to PostRock.

Picture this, it's [[TheEighties the early 1980s]]: The UsefulNotes/ColdWar was at its' height, relations between the East and the West were deteroriating, and the likelihood of the whole planet being wiped out in the event of a nuclear disaster seemed to loom larger than ever.

* LighterAndSofter / NewSoundAlbum: When compared with their bleak, drone-heavy debut, ''Deceit'' is a lot more upbeat and focused on songs rather than experiments. That being said, it's still really dark compared to most other albums.

* LighterAndSofter / NewSoundAlbum: When compared with their bleak, drone-heavy debut, ''Deceit'' is a lot more upbeat and melodic. That being said, it's still really dark compared to most other albums.

** "Shrink Wrap" opens with the same instrumental loop as "Sleep", but edited and messed around with to high heaven. It even possesses the same anti-consumerist message of "Sleep", but is more blunt and to the point with its criticisms. It's worth noting that both tracks open each side of the vinyl, as an attempt to confuse listeners.

# "Hi Baku Shyo" (4:03)

* DownerEnding: The album ends on the unsettling instrumental "Hi Baku Shyo", which roughly translates to [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki "explosion-affected people"]].

The result was ''Deceit'', the second (and final) studio album by This Heat, released in 1981 through the Rough Trade label.

** "Shrink Wrap" opens with the same instrumental loop as "Sleep", but edited and messed around with to high heaven. It even possesses the same anti-consumerist message of "Sleep", but is more blunt and to the point with its criticisms.

* CarefulWithThatAxe: Hayward lets out some absolutely deranged screams, especially on "Paper Hats".

* GenreBusting: A mutant hybrid of {{post-punk}} and {{krautrock}}.

# "Sleep"
# "Paper Hats"
# "Triumph"
# "S.P.Q.R."
# "Cenotaph"
# "Shrink Wrap"
# "Radio Prague"
# "Makeshift Swahili"
# "Independence"
# "A New Kind of Water"
# "Hi Baku Shyo"