Jesu
Opiate Sun

Release Date: 2009 | Tracklist

If I had to sum it up I would have to say Jesu has been my favourite band of the last decade or so. The emotion captured in the pure simplicity of Justin Broadricks song writing; although linear, evokes a clear window to the individual and the soul behind the art; and this ep proves to be no different. All the songs here follow a similar format but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Every song has you feeling as though you're floating on a cloud of distorted and brooding guitars backed by the angelic simple and melodic vocals that come off primal yet deep. Yet if I had to have one complaint about Jesu it would be that oftentimes there are long stretches of instrumental that tend to become somewhat tedious but in the end play well into the massive nihilistic auditory wasteland that is Jesu.

The four songs presented on this ep stray a bit from the heavy side of the earlier Jesu releases and focus more on the slower guitar and synth melodies, yet keep in mind at the beginning of Jesu Justin had just wrapped up Godflesh (for the time being)a much heavier and visceral version of Justins emotional outlets. Despite it having it's small flaws in the end it makes it more human and that's just what makes more interesting and especially more emotional music. Never before I heard Jesu had I heard music so heavy, beautiful and real all at the same time.

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3.7 great

Rank: #0 for 2009