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"Justin Broadrick's ongoing quest to spend the metal-cred capital he earned in Napalm Death and Godflesh like so much blood money has been both compelling and damaging to purists' psyches. The noisy yet stubbornly melodic shoegaze anthems he creates as Jesu mercilessly drag his audience to an appreciation of a densely layered, deliberately emotional sound. For a good time, fire up some message boards and watch partisans tie themselves in knots over Conqueror's decidedly pop bent and feather-light vocals. Broadrick floats all over the place, but even the outraged can't help but worship the heft that keeps his whole production aloft."
Pitchfork Media
"In a year that's found both legit and generic loud-to-indie-rock crossing over, Justin Broadrick has intriguingly opted to steer Jesu into gentler waters.... There's still plenty of that patented guitar crunch here, but Silver exhibits a stronger sense of melody, as if the syrupy haze froze a bit and in the process created something more crystalline. The title track neatly posits, "Silver's just another gold"; this EP manages to immerse such precious-metal glimmer into the mire."
Pitchfork Media
"Broadrick's new statement is a sophisticated step forward and shows a tremendous progression for this already legendary metal pioneer."
Pop Matters
"Tracks are glacier-paced monuments to allowing chords to crash against one another, making for enlightening moments of dissonance. In many cases, its as if Broadrick is in shoegaze-mode, letting things play out simply to see how they interact with one another."
"Basically, Silver is Jesu gone pop, albeit through Broadrick's signature sonics. Thus, his huge guitars and heavy drums are intact. But his singing is even more melodic, keyboards are prominent in the mix, and for the first time ever, Broadrick's songs revolve around chord progressions, not static riffage."
Stylus
"A couple of years back, after passing through the world of electronica, he settled on Jesu, his shoegaze-metal collaboration with ex-Swans skinsman Ted Parsons, and managed to top even himself. With somber requiems built from two guitar tones at a time, their self-titled album transcended mere melancholia to reach a far loftier despair."
"If Godflesh was a deliberation on Industrial Society and Its Future, Jesu is the aural equivalent of Siddhartha. Call it a moment of clarity or spiritual awakening if you wanna get really, really pretentious a nearly total reversal of (in this case, musical) attitude that nonetheless retains all the essential elements of Broadricks personality. "
Decibel
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