noodles wrote:
I don't think he's mellowed out, I mean listen to Curse of the Golden Vampire's stuff... he's just showing a different side of himself through Jesu.
Although I never payed close attention to this collaboration album, I'll still mention the fact it was released in '98, while this one in '05. One can't even imagine what can happen with a person during 7 years.
Zad wrote:
Desolate wrote:
I disliked it. Yep, I did. I thought Jesu was going to be something more than another banal post-rock band (Well, Heartache and even Jesu gave me a slight ray of hope). Remember Justin when he was young? He didn't cry silently in his pillow nor did he whine, he raged, protested, stormed the barricades... Look at him now. Although he didn't became a piteous teen, but he lost sincerity and personality. He sank in stamps and sham. Glossy production only helps him to sink. Lyrics are the incantations of comfortable sorrow, the one a weak character person needs, simply to sob and not to do anything to stop the reason of disturbance. Another pink lens.
Where Godflesh was angry, Jesu seems to me to be the introspection after the violence, sitting and licking your wounds and wondering how many survived, and how many didn't. How you can say this is without personality is beyond me.
The problems he describes in those lyrics are problems of a grown-up man, not emotional teenage angst, but his astounding naivety ruins everything.
And yes, he can write a song with a few memorable places and throw a couple of musical crotchets into the mix (come on, he plays guitar for more than twenty years), but it doesn't stop those songs from being total cliches.
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