DEAF is the first album by JG Thirlwell as Foetus. Originally released in 1981, it's a wild eccentric collision of ideas and mania from music concrete, funk, no wave to noise. DEAF was released on Thirlwell's Self Immolation label and has since been an in-demand collectors item. This 2019 re-issue is the first vinyl reissue of the album. It has been remastered by Josh Bonati and is pressed on red vinyl, with a reproduction of the album's promotional poster inside. New York or Bust, Is That a Line?, Why Can't It Happen to Me?, I Am Surrounded By Incompetence, What Have You Been Doing?, Today I Started Slogging Again, Harold MacMillan, Thank Heaven for Push Button Phones, Flashback, Negative Energy