Jesu - Silver

Shortly before his 40th birthday, Justin Broadrick is a right person to get a career summary. Converted from avant-metal into post-rock religion, this guy's contribution to music world is just enormous: twenty albums, eighteen EP's and countless guest-star appearances. Through 26 years of composing activity, Broadrick's music evolved from heavyweight noise to dark, mesmerizing ambient, created under Final sign.

Somwhere in the middle of his way, he came up with marvellous project called Jesu. A difficult situation has occured: at this time his previous band, famous Godflesh, has disbanded, and Justin had virtually no support during the work on the first Jesu's EP 'Heartache'. Despite great difficulties Jesu kept going; it managed to survive and it still exists. It's most recent release: 'Infinity', popped out a month ago.

It's simply impossible to illustrate all huge Broadrick's achievements in one track. But since I want to try, I'm picking 'Silver' as my favourite. Driven by both melody and disostrion, it's a pure shoegaze trance, which has been achieved from time to time by My Bloody Valentine and Ride. Still, it's hard to compare these with Jesu; Justin always used to be one step ahead of his folowers.

Jesu - Silver

Artist: Jesu
Album: Silver EP (2006)
Track: Silver
Track Number: 1
Track Length: 6:46
Labels: Hydra Head (GBR)