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- Summary: This is the rerelease of the band's 2004 EP Heart Ache and the unreleased 2003 EP Dethroned.
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- Record Label: Hydra Head
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Rock, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal
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Dec 16, 2010Murky and abrasive, the new material comes on like a punk version of Jesu; stripped of most electronics and dynamics, it's a Broadrick riff-fest, jagged around the edges and nearly dehumanized.
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Nov 23, 2010It's the sound of a man moving to his next stage, unsure how he should make his machines howl. Mournful or loud? Why not both?
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Alternative PressDec 15, 2010While the tracks are theoretically similar to the atmospheric vistas of other instrumental units, Jesu's melancholy--accidental or implied--offers a truly unique experience that deserves much more than background-listening status. [Dec 2010, p.114]
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Nov 23, 2010Heart Ache suggests a sense of ambition and movement grander than that of any Jesu LP. Dethroned, meanwhile, suggests a deliberate move toward the middle, with relatively compact song structures and dynamic and textural variety. If Broadrick can unite those ideas into one 40-minute Jesu blast, this band might finally have its full-length masterpiece.
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Mar 8, 2011This collection stands as an odd object--somewhere between a historical document and a fresh statement. Of its two components, Dethroned makes for the stronger half, and that's reassuring in its own way: in a work that weds older material with newer contributions, it's encouraging to find that the high points come from the latter.
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Nov 29, 2010This is not the best or most refined Jesu album and for the casual listener perhaps not the best place to start. For the Jesu fans who have not been able to track the debut EP down, however, it is well worth a listen.
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Nov 23, 2010Combining a brilliant debut with some never-heard, once-unfinished songs is clearly a move made with diehard Jesu fans in mind. But, for the curious and casual music listeners, it's the record's shorter songs that, oddly enough, are the least listenable.
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