Conatus

B-Sides: Zola Jesus

Music post by Mac Pogue on October 11, 2011 - 1:14pm; tagged b-sides, Conatus, goth, live music, Zola Jesus.

zola, a white woman with blond hair, holding a microphone

Zola Jesus can be hard to pin down. One minute, she smothers listeners with cold blankets of synthesizers, hitting them with some of the most uncomfortable atmospheres since Second Edition by PIL. Then her opera-trained voice (that voice!) bursts through the sludge and you realize "oh my god, it’s a pop song!" Live and on her latest record, Conatus, she drops a few more clues to the Zola Jesus mystery.

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