Available as a ‘pay-what-you-feel’ / free release via Bandcamp, this EP (and with 9 tracks, it’s an extremely generous EP) is the first JK Flesh material since the punishing ‘Posthuman’ album a couple of years back, and of course, Justin Broadrick’s been busy resurrecting Godflesh in the meantime.
Let’s cut to the chase here: this is fucking punishing. Slow, heavy, lurching basslines dominate trudging drum patterns while the guitars hang in the background, providing a general mess of noise behind it all.
It’s industrial – of course it is – but because this is Broadrick, it’s not merely a formulaic regurgitation of familiar tropes. Far from it. Almost 30 years since Godflesh first delivered a genre-defining grind in the shape of their eponymous mini-album, Broadrick continues to produce music that pushes the boundaries and which has the capacity to really make the listener feel uncomfortable.
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For the most part, ‘Nothing is Free’ strips things back, and consequently punches what’s left in your face. ‘Boundless Submission’ is a mess of eardrum-crackling distortion, while ‘Peace in Pieces’ is a crushing slab of drum ‘n’ bass-led dubstep that’s the very definition of abrasive.
Stripped back to the barest minimum, ‘Nothing is Free’ couples subsonic, swampy bass with thunderous, skull-crushing dubstep rhythms. It’s brutal, it’s nasty, and it’s classic Broadrick.
JK Flesh – Nothing is Free
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