Pale Sketcher - Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed

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4...according to our Phil on Wed 01 Sep, 2010.

This release confuses me. I think it's the Pale Sketches album by Jesu remixed by Justin Broadrick (who is Jesu) but under the name of Pale Sketcher. After a quick checkup it appears I'm right. Phew! Pale Sketcher is his electronic side project where he chucks his doom guitar out of the window and swaps it for a spanky computer with loads plug-ins and that. This has quite a shoegazey feel to it with a lot of the tracks being quite downtempo and sparkly sounding. A couple of the tracks remind of State of Grace (they did a particularly fine tune called 'Camden' many moons ago) but no one here has heard of them. A couple of the tracks have a that lazy, summery Boards of Canada sound with breathy vocals over them. I'm not massively familiar with the source material but it works quite nicely actually!

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If Justin K. Broadrick’s Jesu project is the sound of the UK artist exorcising his demons, pummeling them into submission with tsunamis of guitar noise, Pale Sketcher is the sound that echoes through his head in the aftermath—a haunting, lonely sound-world of distressed beats and hazy melancholia.
Broadrick’s electronic-music projects have historically taken a bit of a back seat to his more well-known metal excursions (his founding roles in Godflesh and Napalm Death, his long-running shoegaze-metal project Jesu), but with Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed Broadrick brings Pale Sketcher into the spotlight, adding a new layer to the prolific artist’s already- dense body of work. Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed consists of songs originally released on the 2007 Jesu album Pale Sketches—a collection of electronics-oriented Jesu songs that didn’t quite fit on a conventional release. On Demixed, Broadrick revisits these Jesu misfits and plunges them deeper into the abyss, de- and re-constructing them into lumbering, beat-driven synthesizer symphonies. On Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed, Broadrick displays a delicate touch with musical moods, crafting dark, sweet hymns that alternately soothe and unsettle. The crunch of rusty industrial machinery, the murmur of a summer wind—these are Justin K. Broadrick’s Pale Sketches.

Pale Sketcher is another project from the infamous Justin Broadrick of
Jesu, Godflesh, Techno Animal fame

Vinyl & CD version will have slightly different artwork

Vinyl comes with a digital download card of the album

Tracklisting:

01. Don’t Dream It (Mirage Mix)
02. Can I Go Now (Gone Version)
03. Wash It All Away (Cleansed Dub)
04. The Playgrounds Are Empty (Slumber Mix)
05. Tiny Universe (Interstellar)
06. Supple Hope (2009 Mix)
07. Dummy (Bahnhoff Version)
08. Plans That Fade (Faded Dub)

Vinyl

A1. Don’t Dream It (Mirage Mix)
A2. Can I Go Now (Gone Version)
A3. Wash It All Away (Cleansed Dub)
A4. The Playgrounds Are Empty (Slumber Mix)
B1. Tiny Universe (Interstellar)
B2. Supple Hope (2009 Mix)
B3. Dummy (Bahnhoff Version)
B4. Plans That Fade (Faded Dub)

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