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My Jerusalem – Preachers – The End Records

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‘Preachers’ is the second album from My Jerusalem and is due for release on 19th November via The End Records. The band are Jeff Klein, Jon Merz, Michael St Claire, Geena Spigarelli, Grant Van Amburgh, and Cully Symington. Their first album ‘Gone For Good’ was a huge success earning the band performances on BBC Radio 6 and Daytrotter as well as notices on NPR’s All Songs Considered, AOL/Spinners Song of the Day and the iTunes weekly rewind. The new album was recorded in three weeks by Jim Eno in his Public Hi-Fi Studio using analogue tape recorders and vintage keyboards in live performances that were carefully captured and then tweaked only very slightly. Klein had this to say about the album:

“It’s a darker record. So much has changed since ‘Gone For Good’. We’d all kind of been through hell and back again in different ways, and this was the natural artistic result of all that. But I think it’s a beautiful, comforting darkness. It’s real, but not selfish. Nobody ever paid money to see Harry Houdini escape being buried alive. They wanted the small chance of seeing him killed by the weight of the earth on top of him.”

Opening with the title track ‘Preachers’ this is one of those albums that grabs you and shakes you until you pay attention. Klein’s powerful vocals and incredible ability to portray a huge range of emotions set the feel to the album which is backed to the hilt by the melodic keyboards, bass, drums, and rippling guitars. This is an organic piece of work but it goes deeper than that there is something very primal about their sound a deep resonance that reaches out to the inner most part of us all, that darkness in our souls, and calls it forth to flash briefly in the light. They are described as an indie band but there is a lot of rhythm and blues in there too with a gothic flare that is simply delectable. ‘Mono’ has a deceptively cheerful instrumental intro before the opening line “You’re going to die in this room….” This continues throughout the song, that lovely duality of lyrics versus instruments but blended into what on the surface might even be mistaken for a love song where it not for the words. ‘Death Valley’ ups the tempo and is an altogether different beast with the danger and edge coming through clearer and the darkness that underpins and plays through this entire album much more in evidence, like removing a beautiful mask to reveal the horror beneath it. My absolute favourite from the album has to be the darkly seductive ‘Devoe’ with its insistent rhythms and beautifully graphic lyrics describing a sensual encounter tinged with heartache and rage. 9.2/10

Helen Todner

 

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