Jesu - Terminus (2020) EN

After two albums of teaming up with Mark Kozelek and his Sun Kil Moon, Jesu comes back to the solo work. And apparently quite literally as Justin Broadrick hardly got any help from Ted Parsons this time and it seems it went really well for him to be on his own. This is what I gather from listening to Terminus.

It's filled with melancholic but catchy tracks built from very atmospheric elements. Broadrick's vocals are made of pure nostalgia, the Englishman rather speaks out phrases then actually sing but those phrases are so heavily processed in such a way that they emanate ethereality and as the whole thing could be called a heavily electronic post-rock, it reminds me of Immanu El's works. Just like in the albums best songs When I Was Small and Sleeping In.

It's a similar case with the music itself, with the single guitar adding up to pugnacity and huge doses of synths and electronics making it multidimensional. Especially that Broadrick's tracks can be really long and while they are not about building up tension towards ecstatic finishes, the oceans of dense melancholy inspire awe instead, oceans that make the audience slowly go through it while absorbing the atmosphere from every second

Terminus costs 8 USD.

Check: When I Was Small

Country: UK

Genre: electronic slowcore

Label: Avalanche Recordings

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