JESU
Track Listing
"Your Path to Divinity" – 9:14 |
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Personnel
Justin Broadrick – guitars/vocals/bass/programming
Ted Parsons – drums/percussion
Diarmuid Dalton – bass (songs 1/3/4/8)
Paul Neville - guitars (song 7)
Notes
- Released on the 8th of December of 2004, this is Jesu's first LP.
- Tracks 9 and 10 are remixes and are only available on the Japanese release.
- All songs written and produced by Justin. Recorded and mixed at Avalanche, 2001-2004. Drums recorded in Oslo
- Click Here for scans of the Japanese 2CD version.
Reviews
- Decibel Review: "Jesu" [self-titled] January 2005:
This is Broadrick’s Dr. Jekyll side, with all of his Mr. Hyde thrill-killing tendencies stripped away through some kind of elaborate, self-imposed behavior modification process. It’s clearly the same wizard manning the controls, but while one is off somewhere, watching Metropolis, snorting speed, and upping the bpms on his drum machine in an impressive—but ultimately futile—race against time, the other has just popped a couple of blues and is relaxing in a public park, watching the clouds make their way across the gray firmament. If Godflesh was a deliberation on Industrial Society and Its Future, Jesu is the aural equivalent of Siddhartha. Call it a “moment of clarity”—or “spiritual awakening."
[Decibel January 2005] - PitchforkMedia Review: "Jesu", by Brandon Stosuy.
Founded on poky dynamics, densely crunchy instrumentation and often surprising electronic accents and submerged melodies, throughout the record, Broadrick continually exhibits the most disciplined, slowdive patience before implanting a metallic backbone. Jesu's eight tracks sound so uniformly thick-- and issue such an inexorable grind-- that it's easy to slip-slide inside the sludge and drown. Metaphysical volleys aside, the environment sustained is so submerged that its tones become habitual, disappearing into the fabric of the landscape as they continue to ring.
- PopMatters Review: "Jesu".