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Jesu - Jesu (Hydrahead, 2004)
Of the so-called "post-rock" genre, formed by combining jazzy modern rock with emo punk rock and artcore metal, few releases manage to do more than emo did, which is give you something to cry to - with a catchy chorus. Ex-Godflesh personnel however manage to synthesize the cartographic song format of Godflesh with the droning, husky, textural noise of Final, and with an injection of the declining melodies of punk from Fugazi onward, make a record that can be contemplated like a black metal album but used to set a mood in the way ambient records always have.
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http://www.anus.com/zine/music/jesu/jesu/
Of the so-called "post-rock" genre, formed by combining jazzy modern rock with emo punk rock and artcore metal, few releases manage to do more than emo did, which is give you something to cry to - with a catchy chorus. Ex-Godflesh personnel however manage to synthesize the cartographic song format of Godflesh with the droning, husky, textural noise of Final, and with an injection of the declining melodies of punk from Fugazi onward, make a record that can be contemplated like a black metal album but used to set a mood in the way ambient records always have.
Read the Rest:
http://www.anus.com/zine/music/jesu/jesu/