Zola Jesus’ new album out now, plus UK show details
aaamusic | On 26, Sep 2011
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ZOLA JESUS
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NEW ALBUM ‘CONATUS’ OUT TODAY!
NEW SINGLE ‘SEEKIR’ OUT NEXT WEEK
LABEL: SOUTERRAIN TRANSMISSIONS
@ZOLAJESUS – www.facebook.com/ZJZJZJ
“All eyes and ears should be on this divine starlet” – Metro
“Cinematic, gothic-inspired pop with tunes as big as the arrangements”– The Guardian
(Conatus artwork – click for larger version)
Zola Jesus releases her brand new record ‘Conatus’ TODAY through Souterrain Transmissions. ‘Conatus’ follows last year’s release of Stridulum II, also on Souterrain Transmissions, and is a huge leap forward in production, instrumentation and song structure. It says it all in the definition of the title: the will to keep on, to move forward. From thumping ballads to electronic glitch, no sound goes unexplored on her new record. It is an icy exploration in refined chaos and controlled madness, an effort to break through capability and access a sonic world that crumbles as it shines.
The album release is followed next week with the release of single ‘Seekir’ on October 3rd, the second to be taken from the record following July’s release of ‘Vessel’. In her track-by-track feature for The Guardian, Nika Roza Danilova, AKA Zola Jesus says ‘Seekir’ was born from her constant “hunt to make a perfect pop song, which you can dance to but also feel visceral emotion.”
“Lyrically it’s about the anxiety we all feel but are too afraid to confront concerning end times, like a sharp pain in our stomach when we know we’re doing something wrong but we do it anyway.”
Hear Seekir here: http://soundcloud.com/souterraintransmissions/zola-jesus-seekir
Zola Jesus – Seekir by souterraintransmissions
In the last three years, Nika Roza Danilova has gone from being an outsider experimental teenage noise-maker to a fully fledged, internationally celebrated electronic pop musician. It was a huge feat to accomplish, and despite her age (young), her geography (mid-western, desolate), her accelerated scholastic requirements (high school and college were completed in three years each) and her diminutive physical size (4”11, 90 lbs), she has triumphed. She has emerged as a figurehead – a self-produced, self-designed, self-taught independent woman.
ZOLA JESUS PLAYS THE FOLLOWING UK SHOWS:
NOVEMBER
23rd LONDON, Heaven (with EMA & The Quietus DJs) – TICKETS
24th MANCHESTER, Academy 3 (with EMA) – TICKETS
25th LIVERPOOL, Kazimier (with EMA) – TICKETS
