In 2005 I was roasting coffee in a factory on Buffalo's east side. I had gotten into roasting coffee as a craftsman. I worked in a specialty coffee store where the work was creative and diverse but I was lured away to the factory where the salary was higher but the work was soul suckingly routine. I had been doing in for a couple of years and my mp3 player and headphones were the one thing that kept my sanity during those endless days of same.
For many years I had been a Godflesh fan, so when I heard that Justin Broadrick had a new project I bought it sight unseen. I loved the cd on first listen. It's heavy, slow and melodic melancholy shoe gaze music. It's sad and beautiful compositions that slowly envelope you with effects drenched guitars that sound unlike guitars (much in a My Bloody Valentine way). His slow subdued croon was hinted at on the last Godflesh album "hymns", and even though it's heavily processed in #jesu the vocals relate a very dream state human condition. It all really fit in with my factory experience. I listened to this album constantly during that period, and I have bought every subsequent release unquestioning. His sizeable discography has gotten more melodic and has maybe sacrificed some of the "heavy" in later releases but I still really love these albums.
He has since resurrected Godflesh and I was fearful that jesu would fall to the wayside but he remains amazingly prolific and releases this flavor of his art under the moniker still.
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