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Jesu captain Justin K. Broadrick continues his love affair with short formats with two new releases. The first, a new EP titled Why Are We Not Perfect?, expands upon the Jesu material from last year's split 12" with Eluvium. It features the three tracks from that release ("Farewell", "Blind and Faithless", and "Why Are We Not Perfect") plus "alternative versions" of "Farewell" and the title track. Hydra Head will release Why Are We Not Perfect? on August 19.

The second is a long-in-the-works split with Battle of Mice, out now on Robotic Empire. It's available on CD and colored vinyl, with both limited to 2000 copies.

Broadrick is also delivering on his promise of vinyl versions of Jesu's Heart Ache and Pale Sketches, as well as his side project Final's Afar picture disc. Broadrick's own Avalanche Recordings will start shipping 180-gram vinyl editions of all three records on August 22. Each Jesu record comes in an edition of 1000, while the Final pressing was limited to 500 copies.

Why Are We Not Perfect?:

01 Farewell
02 Blind and Faithless
03 Why Are We Not Perfect
04 Farewell (Alternative Version)
05 Why Are We Not Perfect (Alternative Version)

Jesu/Battle of Mice split:

Jesu:

01 Clear Stream
02 Falling From Grace

Battle of Mice:

01 The Bishop
02 Yellow & Black