Tag: Single Review: End of Days

New Audio: JeezJesus Shares a Dance Floor Friendly Protest Song

Joe McIntosh is a Leamington Spa, UK-based musician, producer and creative mastermind behind the emerging electronic music project JeezJesus. While studying Music Technology at the University of Salford, Manchester, McIntosh played guitar and keys for a number of Manchester scene acts, including VALA and The Peace Pipers.

As a producer, McIntosh worked with The Peace Pipers, producing 2019’s debut EP, Patterns and 2020’s double single “Helicopter”/”The Towers.” The Leamington Spa-based artist went to record material with his first project GIMP that included the Reject EP and a few singles.

His latest project, JeezJesus sees McIntosh sonically heading towards a more post-punk-leaning direction. And his debut JeezJesus single “End of Days” possess an uncannily precise 1980s goth/industrial sound, complete with thumping 808s, slashing guitars, relentless four-on-the-floor drum machine, rousingly anthemic hooks and choruses paired with brooding baritone vocals.

Released during the UK general election earlier this year, “End of Days,” as McIntosh explains is an anti-war song informed by the current, larger global climate. “This is my first real attempt going towards a a more post-punk style as opposed to my previous more dark electronic direction, although the song retains elements of this.”