Jesu
Conqueror

THE REVIEW

An idea took hold of my mind while listening to "Conqueror," the new work conceived by the genius Justin K. Broadrick.
An idea that can be summarized like this: except for the personal imprint and mechanical/melancholic/depressive post-rock matrix that characterizes Jesu, it is possible to observe the eight tracks as a kind of crossover between My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, passed through the mixer by Black Sabbath and then left to marinate in the cellars of Godflesh.

Atonal layers of grey and dreamy melody, dilated romanticism, slow (both as Codeine were, and for certain kinships with atmospheric doom), visual (for the ethereal soundscapes constructed), solitary, although firm in its own aware solitude, of an ancient and epic beauty, staggering and alienating, circular and orchestral in its iterative minimalism. All this is clearly manifested in the ten minutes of "Weightless & Horizontal", but let it be clear that the album lives on different and variable sound nuances ("Medicine" is not so distant, even if transposed into a different instrumental context, from the spiritual litanies of OM).

In perpetual mutation, this is the only expressive path known to him.