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Recommended by us on 24th February 2011
...according to our Ant on Thu 24 Feb, 2011.
After her recent success and polished sound it's good to hear this young lady back on Sacred Bones with her very first bedroom recordings. This is raw stuff and I must say I really do like it. It's this kind of super dark suffocated blues track, primal and straight from the soul. I'll take this any day over her recent work. 'Odessa' on the flip has a pounding drum machine pulsating away under a gritty synth-line. The vocals hit with tortured passion. It's clear that there is some real talent under all of the grit, but it is just that filth that I find so appealing.
This is the first song that Zola Jesus ever recorded and it was the first demo ever discovered by Sacred Bones in the first month of 2008. The Die Stasi 7" came out weeks before this release and is also long out of print. This is rare glimpse into the beginnings of a lo-fi artist just starting out in her bedroom who has grown in just three years to be a household name. "Souer Sewer" taps into a tortured cabaret vibe while "Odessa" sounds like something that would have been banned by the party from the airwaves in its namesake Soviet homeland.
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