When Aurora Borealis approached Justin Broadrick (ex Godflesh, Napalm Death, Techno Animal, Ice, currently also of Final) about the possibility of getting him to record for us, we figured we had ideas way above our station...
I mean, this is a man who has been virtually single-handedly responsible for pioneering three different genres of music: grindcore with Napalm Death (at the tender age of 15), industrial metal (with Godflesh at the slightly more sensible age of 19) and dark ambient/isolationism with Final and Ice as well as collaborating with Kevin Martin on the groundbreaking Techno Animal project, fusing speaker destroying bass dread to industrial weight paranoia.
Which brings us to Justin's latest incarnation Jesu. Never one to rest on previous innovations, Justin has been forging ahead once again, marrying his trademark bass-heavy drone with an almost Phil Spector-ish pop sensibility creating bitter sweet anthems of melancholic euphoria. Half buried clean singing collides with speaker rattling low end, blissed out humming drone and machine beats to create an otherworldly ghost pop, as beautiful as it is unsettling.