zola jesus

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.

i <3 "sea talk".. reminds me heavily of mahogany's "my bed is my castle"

Still annoyed that thhe vs LA Vampires things isn't available as a CD

really really digging the valusia ep

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.

i think djp would be feelin this

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/

wow, this is great. want discomix.

This is a great record. It's streaming here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/sep/22/zola-jesus-conatus-album-stream

"[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.

so is the new album worth getting or not?

got mixed reviews so far

I've listened to it twice and i can't remember a thing about it

only listened once: if you dig e.g. "sea talk" you should dig this

What if you only dug "Night"?

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).

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?)

It's on spotify too if you have that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvejztfwM6g

"Skin" (from Conatus) is devastating..... love the whole album to death, it's gorgeous.

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

http://fattifrances.bandcamp.com/

?

would like to hear this fine mixtape

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.

zola vocals vs foetus orchestral arrangements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvycDDxH2cM&feature=youtu.be

this could be quite an album ...

so nobody cares about her any more? still decicing what I think about at-first-disappointing new album

yeah, i wasn't liking what i heard

It's not awful, just a bit too transitional.

dangerous days is growing on me

Me too! Rest of the album notsomuch, Long Way Down probs a personal fav cut

y'all are talking about Taiga right? failed bid for synth pop modernity imo

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.

was just listening to track #11 and thinking "OK, I like this more than the readymade hit single vibe of Hunger"

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.

otm imo

not feeling that record at all.

fair. just had the very weird experience of hearing "dangerous days" in, like, a Lucky Brand retail store. happy for her but o_0

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.

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.

yay! one of my favourite voices in music atm

Hoping its back to the Stridulum sensibility, too.

Anyway, album's out and all -- and it's really good! I might call it my favorite by her yet.

I particularly like the bits that take inspiration from Bug.

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

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.

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

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 :(

It was very intense and amazing. Granted I'm going thru some stuff rn but I cried though a good portion of the performance.

just the intro of this album blew me away

yeah she put on an awesome show both times i've seen her, strongly recommend to anyone who likes her records at all.

yeah this new one is really good, been playing it on the air every week