Lav's Music Corner

Jesu is the solo project of British musician and genre blender Justin Broadrick. It followed his pioneering experimental metal band Godflesh and took things in a different direction combining droning guitars with more conventional songwriting and lead vocals.  Review By Lavender: While I'm too young to have been able to appreciate Godflesh in their heyday I have spent a lot of time indulging with Jesu over the past decade plus. Whether it was with great albums like Conqueror  and Jesu , the pair of wonderful collaborative albums Justin made with Sun Kil Moon or the Before  EP he released this year that is still one of my favorite short form projects of 2020, I really enjoy the music of Jesu. While this is technically the 6th Jesu album the catalog runs extensively beyond this and would take far too long for me to unpack every part of it but what I will say is that as far as recent memory goes, Justin is on a hot streak ad Terminus  mostly keeps that up.  The re...

James Blake is a British singer-songwriter and electronic music producer who first made waves in the early 2010's with his dubstep parallel experimental electronica. In recent years James has massively widened his audience through high profile collaborations on the Black Panther  album as well as alongside Slowthai, Flatbush Zombies, Kehlani and Beyonce.  Review By Lavender: There was no single artist in the 2010's with a slightly possible exception of Kendrick Lamar, whose output I enjoyed as consistently as James Blake. From his experimental debut to the rich R&B songwriting of Overgrown , the icy DIY of The Colour In Anything  and finally the commercial bliss of Assume Form . James Blake has excited, challenged and amazed me at every single turn of his career up to this point. Giving that just 9 months ago I called his self-titled debut album my second favorite of the entire decade as well as naming his song Retrograde my favorite song of the entire decade I was cl...