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New Horizon
Studio album by JK Flesh
Released	28 September 2018 (28 September 2018)
Studio	Avalanche Studios
Genre	Techno
Length	51:02
Label	Electric Deluxe
Producer	Justin Broadrick
JK Flesh chronology
Wasplike (2018) New Horizon (2018)

New Horizon is the third studio album by JK Flesh, a moniker of English musician Justin Broadrick. It was released digitally and on vinyl on 28 September 2018 through the label Electric Deluxe under the designation EDLX.058. The album was preceded by streams of the tracks "Different Species" and "External Transmission Stage" in June and August 2018 respectively.

Production

Like the JK Flesh releases that precede it, New Horizon continues into minimal techno territory tinted by Justin Broadrick's decades creating metal music. Musically, the album is dark and textured, with pulsing beats and Broadrick's typically gloomy atmosphere. The sound is informed by dub music. About the album's deliberately stark style, Broadrick said:

I actually reduce things down so they sound more like a machine for me, not like a musical instrument. It’s somewhat trying to remove myself from the music and remove all shred of humanity.

Broadrick spent a week in early 2017 recording hundreds of music jam pieces at Avalanche Studios in North Wales which he then edited and mixed over a period of a month "using a combination of hardware and industrial gear, including tape loops and echo pedals". About the process, he said "It was very hands-on and very concise. I don’t generally spend even an hour on one thing—maybe 10 minutes and I’m like, ‘Right, I’ve said everything I need to say. On to the next one.’" The rhythms on the album average between 120 and 135 beats per minute.

My bottom line is often misery of some context. The new JK Flesh is very much about textures that become very earthy, burly, and somewhat hellish.

Reception

Andrew Ryce of Resident Advisor gave New Horizon a positive review, praising its ominous mood and its "push-and-pull between aggression and restraint". The Letter's Blair Millen called the album "cohesive, well sequenced and a thoroughly thrilling listen". Reviewing the album for Noisey's Stream of the Crop selection, Colin Joyce wrote, "It’s gross, it’s humid, but most importantly, it’s alive." Joyce also described the album as "a chilling and kinetic record of belt-sander techno that’s—to my ears—his defining work as JK Flesh and one of the finest albums he’s put out under any moniker". The Quietus singled out "External Transmission Stage" as one of their favorite songs of the year.

Accolades

Track listing

All music is composed by Justin Broadrick

Personnel

Credits adapted from New Horizon liner notes

• Justin Broadrick – instruments, production

References

1. ^ New Horizon (digital liner notes). JK Flesh. Electric Deluxe. 2018. EDLX.058. Retrieved 29 September 2018.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
2. Eede, Christian. "Listen: New JK Flesh". The Quietus. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
3. ^ Ryce, Andrew. "JK Flesh – Different Species". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
4. ^ Ryce, Andrew. "JK Flesh – New Horizon". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
5. ^ "Speedy J's Electric Deluxe Announces JK Flesh Album, 'New Horizon'". XLR8R. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
6. Biazzetti, Claudio (26 July 2018). "The Techno Dub According to JK Flesh". Rolling Stone (in Italian). Retrieved 29 September 2018.
7. O'Connor, Andy (10 October 2018). "Heavy Metal Techno: JK Flesh on Futurism, DIY Culture, and the Beauty of Non-Music". Electronic Beats. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
8. ^ Wiederhorn, Jon (17 October 2018). "As JK Flesh, Godflesh's Justin Broadrick Finds Peace In Solitude and Techno". Bandcamp. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
9. ^ Millen, Blair. "Review: JK Flesh – New Horizon". theletter.co.uk. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
10. Joyce, Colin; et al. "Stream of the Crop: 11 New Albums for Heavy Rotation". Noisey. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
11. Joyce, Colin. "JK Flesh's Noisey Mix Is Seething Machine Energy for a Pitch Black Room". Noisey. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
12. Turner, Luke. "The Quietus' Top 50 Tracks of 2018". The Quietus. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
13. "2018's Best Albums: RA Staff Pick Their Favourite Electronic Albums from the Last 12 Months". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 13 December 2018.

External links

• New Horizon on Bandcamp through Electric Deluxe

• 2018 albums
• Justin Broadrick albums
• Albums produced by Justin Broadrick
• Techno albums by English artists
• Minimal techno albums