Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came
And you know what this means don’t you?
Don’t you.
It means it will be brilliant. Check it out:
Disc 1
1.Homesick
2.Comforter
3.Everyday
4.The Great Leveller
5.Grey Is The Colour
Disc 2 (Daymare)
Beginning with ‘Homesick’, with it’s guitar hooks, shoegaze textures and familar jesu sound, one can be mislead into consdering that this new album will follow a familar jesu trajectory but instead the following tracks use jesu’s aeshetic but take in dub, post punk and electronica along the way, to create maybe the most dynamic jesu album to date.
The epic ‘The Great Leveller’, at over 17 minutes, is the boldest statement of the songs here- featuring the albums only other player besides Justin, Nicola Manzan, who commands a one man orchestra of strings. Mastered by James Plotkin. Recorded and mixed at Justin K Broadrick’s Avalanche Studio.
Ok, time to check this band. I’m hearing so many good things. Probably better to start earlier in their catalogue. Heard some samples on amazon and thought it sounded worthwhile.
My Godflesh-a-thon over the weekend proved fruitful. Loved Pure! Really loved it. Very minimal and heavy, not to mention cold and robotic. Streetcleaner…not as much. a bit too murky and directionless for my liking. But I still dug it. Slavestate I dig, but a lot of it gets lost in the noise, as if they had recorded everything with the volume way up. The Cold World e.p was pretty listenable.
Ok, time to check this band. I’m hearing so many good things. Probably better to start earlier in their catalogue. Heard some samples on amazon and thought it sounded worthwhile.
My Godflesh-a-thon over the weekend proved fruitful. Loved Pure! Really loved it. Very minimal and heavy, not to mention cold and robotic. Streetcleaner…not as much. a bit too murky and directionless for my liking. But I still dug it. Slavestate I dig, but a lot of it gets lost in the noise, as if they had recorded everything with the volume way up. The Cold World e.p was pretty listenable.
But Pure…wow.
Yeah I’ll grab some Jesu.
I fucking love Jesu. I prefer Jesu to Godflesh (is that blasphemy?). But I hope you aren’t going in expecting Godflesh.
Jesu can’t hold a candle to GF for me and I feel JKB has been treading water with this project for some time…I loved Heartache and the s/t record and Silver but the I feel rest has been one regression after another…but some of the word on this one sounds promising…I hear lot’s of progress is being made on the new GF also,so yeah…
Godflesh is where it’s at and Godflesh was MEANT to be the next LP we got from JK! Oh well…I like the description of the new jesu and I especially like the ultra emo title.
I don’t know if this automatically means brilliance out the gate. Your enthusiasm is infectious, though. Please don’t stop.
Jesu is a project (hesitate strongly to call it a full-fledged band at this stage, with Parsons and Dalton taking lengthy sabbaticals) whose first few releases made huge lasting impressions on me that came out at seemingly the right parts of my life. There have been scattered songs on later releases that are breathtaking - just nothing as trailblazing, timely or dare I say devastating as the beloved trinity of those first three. Maybe Ascension really is a wonderful album and I need to pull the gunk outta my ears. I think Broadrick did a disservice by recording too much under Jesu for a few years, saturating listeners with (always) listenable material with diminishing effect. It’s great he’s focused his attentions elsewhere as a new album with how it’s described would be very welcome. Trying to bridge differences between the electronic & organic Jesu was a bad call, in my opinion. The Opiate Sun EP sounds horrible. It’s like reading a postcard barely legible in fading pencil when the author could have used a rich ballpoint.
New Jesu is always welcome in my house, but I agree that it’s been a while since there was anything to salivate over. Ascension was boring and soppy and Infinity…just didn’t work. The Christmas, Opiate Sun and Lifeline e.p’s were cringeworthy and Why Are We Not Perfect was kind of redundant.
For me the last great release was Pale Sketches which I love to death.
Hopefully this new one will rekindle the fire, however I hope he concentrates all his efforts into a new Godflesh. Supposedly it’s out in February, but I wouldn’t take anything he says at face value. Justin is worse than Killing Joke when it comes to delaying new material.
Well if Pure is anything to go by, I’m happy to greet almost anything this Broadrick chap puts out with open arms.
I’m off to ebay to do some buying.
The self titled, Heartache and Silver is where to go, right?
You can’t go wrong with those three imo. After that, he just started going in circles. I might actually prefer his EPs over his full lengths (godflesh included). Conquerer and Opiate Sun are easily my least favorites of his. Enjoyed the first half of Infinity, or enough of it until it started wearing down. Ascension is probably the best thing hes done since Silver.
Maybe someday we’ll see the new Godflesh album… But in the meantime, I wouldn’t be too surprised if we saw a couple Final albums and whatever other side project he feels like working on.
Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came
Pretentious album title [:P]. It could be cool though from the description seems to be more varied than prior efforts which is good. I agree that Jesu sort of started going in circles and I lost interest. Sitting through any full length LP by Jesu is difficult.
Well if Pure is anything to go by, I’m happy to greet almost anything this Broadrick chap puts out with open arms.
I’m off to ebay to do some buying.
The self titled, Heartache and Silver is where to go, right?
Start with silver or pale sketches. those two are my faves and probably the most mainstream-ish. Opiate sun was not good. why are we are not perfect was pretty good but not as solid as pale or silver.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Those ragging on the post-Silver output should know there’s some real gems they’re missing out on. Here’s a stellar Jesu song from a seldom discussed release:
More in line with with the Pale Sketches material, or is that Pale SketchER now? Tromps most album cuts & the change into the shoegazer vibe in the last couple of minutes is very moving. I’d love if the new album picks up where this left off.
Those ragging on the post-Silver output should know there’s some real gems they’re missing out on. Here’s a stellar Jesu song from a seldom discussed release:
Self titled is unlistenable in my opinion, same with conqueror. But pale sketches is a gem and the subsequent remixes (or demixes as they’re so called) are not bad either.
Late,
grmpysmrf