"Jesu is a shoegaze band formed in 2003 by Justin Broadrick following the breakup of Godflesh. Beginning initially as a one man project, the project included bassist Dermot Dalton and drummer Ted Parsons in late 2003. Their first release is the heartache EP, with Broadrick playing all of the instruments. The first full-length release features all of the members.
The lack of capitalisation is a consistent, deliberate part of Jesu's naming conventions ("jesu" is often mistyped as "Jesu"); this gives a certain aesthe ...read more
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"Jesu is a shoegaze band formed in 2003 by Justin Broadrick following the breakup of Godflesh. Beginning initially as a one man project, the project included bassist Dermot Dalton and drummer Ted Parsons in late 2003. Their first release is the heartache EP, with Broadrick playing all of the instruments. The first full-length release features all of the members.
The lack of capitalisation is a consistent, deliberate part of Jesu's naming conventions ("jesu" is often mistyped as "Jesu"); this gives a certain aesthetic quality, but also serves to remove the inherent religion from the use of Jesu as a proper noun. Since proper nouns typically reflect a level of importance on that which they describe, it could be said that avoiding this is in keeping with the depressive, almost nihilistic themes of jesu's music." « hide
