Foolishly bought this without checking tracklist - 3 of the 4 tracks were on Stridulum II
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Sunday, 17 October 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
boooo!
― sleeve, Monday, 18 October 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
hate it when artists pull that shit
I saw her once and thought she was kind of meh. I could see it better with a full band, but she also needs a little more varied songwriting.
― Katy Lied, Lady Died (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
still missing the crushing synth fuzz of her early stuff
i get this but the vocal hook in poor animal is hard to discount. it's a little monster of a goth-rock song.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 7 November 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i <3 "sea talk".. reminds me heavily of mahogany's "my bed is my castle"
― shart to the *plop* (electricsound), Thursday, 23 December 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Still annoyed that thhe vs LA Vampires things isn't available as a CD
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 December 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
really really digging the valusia ep
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
valusia is incredibly good! the second she started singing in the first song i was like "i have made an excellent decision in purchasing this"
got the other one coming in the mail in a bit.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 30 January 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i think djp would be feelin this
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 30 January 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
New track 'Vessel' from upcoming album Conatus, released Oct 4th. Kinda reminds me of a Gothic Lykke Li a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMSTg4gStOE
Tracklistling etc http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/06/zola-jesus-announces-new-album-conatus/
― Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
wow, this is great. want discomix.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
This is a great record. It's streaming here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/sep/22/zola-jesus-conatus-album-stream
― Evan R, Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
"[this song] feels the most vivid to me, as if finally I was able to communicate this universe that is my prison."
"The only thing keeping me together at this point was a terrible bliss I felt from being alone."
"I thought of the chorus while doing my daily walk from my house to the drugstore, the only chore that brought me outside."
Can't parody this stuff.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
so is the new album worth getting or not?
got mixed reviews so far
― prego, Monday, 26 September 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
I've listened to it twice and i can't remember a thing about it
― Number None, Monday, 26 September 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
only listened once: if you dig e.g. "sea talk" you should dig this
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 7 October 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
What if you only dug "Night"?
― psychedelicatessen (seandalai), Friday, 7 October 2011 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
I've been waiting and hoping this pops up in Rhapsody so I can check it out before buying. Loved pretty much everything she's done to this point (that I've heard anyway).
― musicfanatic, Friday, 7 October 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
Just saw Evan's link. Still works! Thanks. I hope it's still up after I get off work today. (I thought websites only had these things up until the release of the album?)
― musicfanatic, Friday, 7 October 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
It's on spotify too if you have that.
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Friday, 7 October 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvejztfwM6g
― difficult to adjust to ilxor being a low frequency poster (ilxor), Sunday, 30 October 2011 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
"Skin" (from Conatus) is devastating..... love the whole album to death, it's gorgeous.
― ilxor, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
Now that we're pretty well into the 90s revival, I'm working on a mixtape and I'm hunting for a few more 90s throwback tracks that sound like Nika (Zola Jesus) + Rory's Do You Wanna Be My Baby. Obviously I'm gonna use some Pictureplane, Elite Gymnastics, Korallreven, Keep Shelly in Athens, maybe a little jj or Onra. But I'm looking for something that sounds a little more lo-fi and homemade, like the feel of the Nika+Rory track above -- camped out in the bedroom trying to do Nellee Hooper's Soul II Soul productions. Maria Minerva is closing to what I'm getting at but she doesn't sound like she wants to be pop enough. Anyone found anything like this out there on myspace or bandcamp or whatever? Recommendations appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW_cUJf2pOM
― Dare, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://fattifrances.bandcamp.com/
?
― the dilettante escape plan (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
would like to hear this fine mixtape
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 09:56 (eleven years ago) link
The fatti frances thing is pretty close to what I'm looking for ... thanks! Now if only I could find stuff with more piano vamps and an obsession w/the big drum track on St. Etienne's version of Only Love Can Break Your Heart.
― Dare, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
zola vocals vs foetus orchestral arrangements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvycDDxH2cM&feature=youtu.be
this could be quite an album ...
― mark e, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
so nobody cares about her any more? still decicing what I think about at-first-disappointing new album
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 3 October 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i wasn't liking what i heard
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 3 October 2014 06:47 (nine years ago) link
It's not awful, just a bit too transitional.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Friday, 3 October 2014 06:49 (nine years ago) link
dangerous days is growing on me
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
Me too! Rest of the album notsomuch, Long Way Down probs a personal fav cut
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 08:11 (nine years ago) link
y'all are talking about Taiga right? failed bid for synth pop modernity imo
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 October 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
transparently so, but still strong on the back half imo.
The Rihanna Danilova thing is a miss but the live show with horn section is festival-ready.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 23 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
was just listening to track #11 and thinking "OK, I like this more than the readymade hit single vibe of Hunger"
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
the problem is there isn't *enough* readymade hit single vibe. this could have gone two ways: full-on synthpop hit single vibes, or full-on huge impassive bleak stuff. either would be better than splitting the difference.
― katherine, Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
otm imo
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
not feeling that record at all.
― akm, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
fair. just had the very weird experience of hearing "dangerous days" in, like, a Lucky Brand retail store. happy for her but o_0
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
yeah. I'm glad she's getting the exposure and I don't think anyone is making her do anything she doesn't want to do, it's just a jarring thing after the last record.
― akm, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
New album just announced, she's back on Sacred Bones.
https://zolajesus.bandcamp.com/album/okovi
Fittingly, the 11 electronics-driven songs on Okovi share musical DNA with her early work on Sacred Bones. The music was written in pure catharsis, and as a result, the sonics are heavy, dark, and exploratory. In addition to the contributions of Danilova’s longtime live bandmate Alex DeGroot, producer/musician WIFE, cellist/noise-maker Shannon Kennedy from Pedestrian Deposit, and percussionist Ted Byrnes all helped build Okovi’s textural universe. With Okovi, Zola Jesus has crafted a profound meditation on loss and reconciliation that stands tall alongside the major works of its genre. The album peaks of tragedy with great wisdom and clarity. Its songs plumb dark depths, but they reflect light as well. ARTIST STATEMENT: Last year, I moved back to the woods in Wisconsin where I was raised. I built a little house just steps away from where my dilapidated childhood tree fort is slowly recombining into earth. Okovi was fed by this return to roots and several very personal traumas. While writing Okovi, I endured people very close to me trying to die, and others trying desperately not to. Meanwhile, I was fighting through a haze so thick I wasn’t sure I’d find my way to the other side. Death, in all of its masks, has been encircling everyone I love, and with it the questions of legacy, worth, and will. Okovi is a Slavic word for shackles. We’re all shackled to something—to life, to death, to bodies, to minds, to illness, to people, to birthright, to duty. Each of us born with a unique debt, and we have until we die to pay it back. Without this cost, what gives us the right to live? And moreover, what gives us the right to die? Are we really even free to choose? This album is a deeply personal snapshot of loss, reconciliation, and a sympathy for the chains that keep us all grounded to the unforgiving laws of nature. To bring it to life, I decided to enlist the help of Alex DeGroot, who has been the only constant in my live band and helped mix the Stridulum EP back in 2010. It will be released on Sacred Bones, the closest group of people I’ll ever have to blood-bound family.
With Okovi, Zola Jesus has crafted a profound meditation on loss and reconciliation that stands tall alongside the major works of its genre. The album peaks of tragedy with great wisdom and clarity. Its songs plumb dark depths, but they reflect light as well.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Last year, I moved back to the woods in Wisconsin where I was raised. I built a little house just steps away from where my dilapidated childhood tree fort is slowly recombining into earth. Okovi was fed by this return to roots and several very personal traumas.
While writing Okovi, I endured people very close to me trying to die, and others trying desperately not to. Meanwhile, I was fighting through a haze so thick I wasn’t sure I’d find my way to the other side. Death, in all of its masks, has been encircling everyone I love, and with it the questions of legacy, worth, and will.
Okovi is a Slavic word for shackles. We’re all shackled to something—to life, to death, to bodies, to minds, to illness, to people, to birthright, to duty. Each of us born with a unique debt, and we have until we die to pay it back. Without this cost, what gives us the right to live? And moreover, what gives us the right to die? Are we really even free to choose?
This album is a deeply personal snapshot of loss, reconciliation, and a sympathy for the chains that keep us all grounded to the unforgiving laws of nature. To bring it to life, I decided to enlist the help of Alex DeGroot, who has been the only constant in my live band and helped mix the Stridulum EP back in 2010. It will be released on Sacred Bones, the closest group of people I’ll ever have to blood-bound family.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link
yay! one of my favourite voices in music atm
― nxd, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
Hoping its back to the Stridulum sensibility, too.
― it's just locker room treason (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
Anyway, album's out and all -- and it's really good! I might call it my favorite by her yet.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 September 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
I particularly like the bits that take inspiration from Bug.
― Special Egyptian Guest Star (Sanpaku), Sunday, 17 September 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
Gavin R. otm
Life is so much better with @ZOLAJESUS Thankyou for another masterpiece ❤️— GAVIN ROSSDALE (@GavinRossdale) September 19, 2017
People get OKOVI if you are in need and desire. @ZOLAJESUS— GAVIN ROSSDALE (@GavinRossdale) September 19, 2017
― 🔱 Holger Jowday ^🌑^ (Dancing on the Pylons), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
Welp, Gavin's not wrong. Saw her on Sunday night and she was amazing even while recovering from a virus/laryngitis. I love this album so much.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
Loved the hell out of Stridulum but that album became associated with a pretty horrible time of my life so I stayed well clear of her afterwards. I now feel ready to get back in
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
I dreamt the other day that I was gonna travel to Asheville to see her play there and it was intense and amazing. I sadly ended up not having the opportunity to do so irl :(
― 🔱 Holger Jowday ^🌑^ (Dancing on the Pylons), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link