Ascension

Jesu is Justin Broadrick and he has been on a music-making path for many years now. Ascension may be another way station on this journey or it may be a peak, but it is certainly part of a body of work that is rising with much power and majesty. The layers of atmospheric guitars and keyboards on the ten tracks of Ascension build relentlessly atop each other creating a huge structure that seems to float or glide more like a weather pattern than a piece of music. As it moves overhead you are enveloped in a new world of sonic pleasure where the edges are soft and sustained but the weight is ever present. Through this cloak of sound great beams of sunlight occasionally break, lighting the clouds in spectacular colors. All is not gray in this world.