For me, Justin K Broadrick... Actually, let's redo that:
Justin K Broadrick in the Jesu project is... Even better:
The love I have for "Mr. Jesu" Justin K Broadrick borders on pathological: years and years of him not releasing anything interesting, and I'm plunging headfirst into the constant hope that his depressed creative vein has come to its senses. In vain.
A decent work in five years of compulsive manic production, a decent work out of ten releases. Perhaps I exaggerate. We could grant him even three decent ones, but truly beautiful, only one: that dethroned EP that is so new it's composed of tracks written six years before being published. Autech, experts would say.
Finished.
Justin has been at the end of his creative vein for so long that only a nostalgic like me would want to keep hoping. He should put the Jesu toy back in its case, place it on top of the bookshelf, tidy up the room, take two or three years to understand what the heck he wants to do, and start over with a new game.
But no, Justin is more nostalgic than I am, and he isn't willing to stop with "shoegazing metal," so he continues on his path: Jesu brand and at least one release a year. ("It's metal shoegaze, I invented it why the heck should I retire??? You retire, little moron"> He never said it, but he would if he read this page.)
And so we come to this 2012.
Maybe by chance, maybe by mistake, maybe because he really didn't feel like doing anything other than making some quick cash, this year it's time for a nice Director's Cut. Because if Hollywood can afford to tell you "Look, the movie you've watched until today is wrong: you were supposed to see this one we've kept hidden until now just to take you for a ride" I don't see why someone who, after giving life to Napalm Death, left everything behind and continued to create, here and there, Music (with a capital M) for almost 20 years can't do the same.
Now, I don't want to drag it on too much: this is an alternate master of the first self-titled album, Justin claims this should have been the original version but then... But then you get him to tell you (Justin tells and you listen), because I speak English like crap, read it worse, can't recount it, and above all, I don't feel like writing summaries. The fact is, you can believe him or not, you're free to think it's just a commercial gimmick and whatnot. I've heard the album, it's along the lines of "Conqueror" (very much along the lines of "Conqueror," let's say it's on its lap) very different from the first version, it's beautiful, and I even like it more than the original.
That's enough for me.
But maybe it's just hype, after all, I love JKB. But perhaps you already figured that out.
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