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ok so part of it is that post self is the ultimate cyborg godflesh record for me. it partially explores the kind of industrial dub/dance area of the band hinted at by "slavestate" and the dancier end of the discog, and i love this sound and don't think there's enough of it. songs like "parasite" are totally from that world, when i close my eyes i can see club lights pulsing to its beat. but then the album also contains godfleshy brutality and jesuish beauty (and "the cyclic end" which is caught in some godflesh/jesu purgatory) and neither of these feel out of place bc they're part of the arc of sound the album creates over time. it's just... everything works and the riffs slam and the vocals sound like somebody screaming while having their body replaced. just kind of feel like it's the apex of the whole jk broadrick project, deep, dark, pummeling, kinda sounds like a tank rolling over a field of human skulls, but also totally related to dance music and dub and rap, spliced with moments of heartstopping beauty bc ugliness and beauty are both part of the transformation, horror and transcendence the same feeling just with different inputs
there's this very dubbed-out dissociated feeling to post self that... idk it's not in the early records, nor is it in a world lit only by fire. it really hits during "mortality sorrow"'s combo of terminator synth + robot voice
contains godfleshy brutality and jesuish beauty (and "the cyclic end" which is caught in some godflesh/jesu purgatory)
correcting myself, both "the cyclic end" and "the infinite end" are caught in the jesuflesh continuum, and are both scarier than they are beautiful i think. maybe it depends on the time of day i'm listening to it. "the infinite end" is like... idk, maybe about as beautiful as the cure's pornography, lol
two years pass...