| Never one to rest on previous innovations, Justin Broadrick has been forging ahead once again, marrying his trademark bass-heavy riffs with an almost Phil Spector-ish pop sensibility creating anthems of melancholic euphoria. Half buried clean singing collides with speaker rattling low end, blissed out humming resonance and machine beats to create an otherworldly ghost pop, as beautiful as it is unsettling. The Sundown/Sunrise EP picks up where 2006's Silver EP left off, this time taking two songs and stretching them out over 32 minutes, mixing the bittersweet melody with huge swathes of oceanic drone and minimilist electronica - this is by far the most accomplished and ambitious that Jesu have sounded to date. This is the clear version (second pressing). |
