Zola Jesus - The Spoils

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 01 Oct, 2009.

This new Zola Jesus L.P on Sacred Bones is pretty damn sweet. Entitled 'The Spoils', this is a neat follow up to an excellent E.P released earlier in the year on Troubleman records. Zola Jesus has a pretty unique sounding voice that helps carry these strange and mysterious tunes to a higher level. The music is pretty industrial sounding with is mix of dark wave and shoe-gazer tones. Drums are ambient and distant, bass lines are obscure and pulsing and the overall ambient sounds create an eerie atmosphere that perfectly compliments her distinctive vocal tone. This L.P stands alone for better or for worst and that's what makes it so appealing, it seems to exist on it's own plane and sort of reminds me of a really fucking crazy fucked up version of Bat for Lashes or Kate Bush. Totally intriguing sounds worth sitting down with a brew and studying.

Sacred Bones is proud to present The Spoils from Zola Jesus. Hailing from the unsuspecting locale of Madison, WI, Zola Jesus—the alter ego of Nika Roza Danilova—occupy a sphere of sparse industrial rhythms, no-fi drones, and ethereal femme vocals. Those who have seen her handful of live shows, heard her WFMU set, or caught any of the acclaimed, sought after, and now mostly out of print releases on Die Stasi or Troubleman Unlimited already know. For those uninitiated The Spoils may be the most fully realized representation of her sound. Zola Jesus have two previous releases on Sared Bones, the Souer Sewer single and a limited CD of a live performance from WNYU. The CD contains the entire “Soeur Sewer” 7" as well as the three songs from the Die Stasi single.

Side A:

   1. Six Feet (From My Baby)
   2. Crowns
   3. Sinfonia and the Shrew
   4. Sink the Dynasty
   5. Devil Take You

Side B:

   1. Lullaby in Tongues
   2. Smirenye
   3. Clay Bodies
   4. In Hiding From the Crow
   5. Tell it to the Willow