JK Broadrick’s lush dream-pop jungle project finds its target on LA’s Give/Take a decade since it was due for issue on AFX’s Rephlex (RIP), now beautifully finished with heart-in-mouth harmonic structures and thizzing breaks that hark to his classic Jesu gear.
Stemming from 2009-2013 recordings that followed the feel of Jesu’s ‘Pale Sketches’ (2007) set, the pioneering Napalm Death/Godflesh/Zonal co-founder really wears his heart on sleeve in this volley of uncannily seasonally appropriate gems flush with hip hop-meets-shoegaze sampling tekkerz prone to brukbeat prang-outs. While his music has long traded on a sense of brummie doom in myriad forms, ‘Golden Skin’ showcases the flipside of Broadrick’s crankiness with results that lean toward Clams Casino’s ebullient witch house or indeed AFX’s own brand of emotive tempest, harnessing his skills to a headier form of intensity that sounds particularly potent in midwinter and the accompanying feels that come circa this time of year.
‘Golden Skin’ executes its function beautifully well from top to bottom. ‘Today’ sets out its emotional brief with filigree vocal sampling and rearrangement set to sparking early ‘90s hardcore breaks, and we can’t help but compare the hip hop break and vocal chopping of ‘A Joy We Only Know’ with peak, contemporaneous Clams Casino cuts, while ‘Have Faith’ sounds like the shoegaze D&B ideas of Digital’s SOS peach ‘Lost’ merged with Broadrick’s late ‘90s tech step style. At its core there’s a fantasy for anyone who dreamt of MBV doing slow jungle in ‘Heart Beat’, and his ‘Golden Skin’ really lets loose with the fuzzy steppers pressure, and the loopy rushes of ‘Rollercoaster’ and ‘I’m Your Possession’ feel like Panda Bear gone ruffneck.
Not a bad tune on this one >> big tip for the romantics.
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Individually numbered edition of 300 copies, transparent vinyl in full gatefold sleeve.
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JK Broadrick’s lush dream-pop jungle project finds its target on LA’s Give/Take a decade since it was due for issue on AFX’s Rephlex (RIP), now beautifully finished with heart-in-mouth harmonic structures and thizzing breaks that hark to his classic Jesu gear.
Stemming from 2009-2013 recordings that followed the feel of Jesu’s ‘Pale Sketches’ (2007) set, the pioneering Napalm Death/Godflesh/Zonal co-founder really wears his heart on sleeve in this volley of uncannily seasonally appropriate gems flush with hip hop-meets-shoegaze sampling tekkerz prone to brukbeat prang-outs. While his music has long traded on a sense of brummie doom in myriad forms, ‘Golden Skin’ showcases the flipside of Broadrick’s crankiness with results that lean toward Clams Casino’s ebullient witch house or indeed AFX’s own brand of emotive tempest, harnessing his skills to a headier form of intensity that sounds particularly potent in midwinter and the accompanying feels that come circa this time of year.
‘Golden Skin’ executes its function beautifully well from top to bottom. ‘Today’ sets out its emotional brief with filigree vocal sampling and rearrangement set to sparking early ‘90s hardcore breaks, and we can’t help but compare the hip hop break and vocal chopping of ‘A Joy We Only Know’ with peak, contemporaneous Clams Casino cuts, while ‘Have Faith’ sounds like the shoegaze D&B ideas of Digital’s SOS peach ‘Lost’ merged with Broadrick’s late ‘90s tech step style. At its core there’s a fantasy for anyone who dreamt of MBV doing slow jungle in ‘Heart Beat’, and his ‘Golden Skin’ really lets loose with the fuzzy steppers pressure, and the loopy rushes of ‘Rollercoaster’ and ‘I’m Your Possession’ feel like Panda Bear gone ruffneck.
Not a bad tune on this one >> big tip for the romantics.
CD in gatefold wallet.
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JK Broadrick’s lush dream-pop jungle project finds its target on LA’s Give/Take a decade since it was due for issue on AFX’s Rephlex (RIP), now beautifully finished with heart-in-mouth harmonic structures and thizzing breaks that hark to his classic Jesu gear.
Stemming from 2009-2013 recordings that followed the feel of Jesu’s ‘Pale Sketches’ (2007) set, the pioneering Napalm Death/Godflesh/Zonal co-founder really wears his heart on sleeve in this volley of uncannily seasonally appropriate gems flush with hip hop-meets-shoegaze sampling tekkerz prone to brukbeat prang-outs. While his music has long traded on a sense of brummie doom in myriad forms, ‘Golden Skin’ showcases the flipside of Broadrick’s crankiness with results that lean toward Clams Casino’s ebullient witch house or indeed AFX’s own brand of emotive tempest, harnessing his skills to a headier form of intensity that sounds particularly potent in midwinter and the accompanying feels that come circa this time of year.
‘Golden Skin’ executes its function beautifully well from top to bottom. ‘Today’ sets out its emotional brief with filigree vocal sampling and rearrangement set to sparking early ‘90s hardcore breaks, and we can’t help but compare the hip hop break and vocal chopping of ‘A Joy We Only Know’ with peak, contemporaneous Clams Casino cuts, while ‘Have Faith’ sounds like the shoegaze D&B ideas of Digital’s SOS peach ‘Lost’ merged with Broadrick’s late ‘90s tech step style. At its core there’s a fantasy for anyone who dreamt of MBV doing slow jungle in ‘Heart Beat’, and his ‘Golden Skin’ really lets loose with the fuzzy steppers pressure, and the loopy rushes of ‘Rollercoaster’ and ‘I’m Your Possession’ feel like Panda Bear gone ruffneck.
Not a bad tune on this one >> big tip for the romantics.