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░ ██ ██ Artist: Zola Jesus ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Conatus █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2011 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2011-10-05 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Indie ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Souterrain Transmissions ░ ▄█
█▄ ░ Encoder: FLAC 1.2.1 ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Quality: 44.1kHz, 2 channels ░ ▄█
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░█ █░ ▀
█ 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 accomplishment, and, █
█ despite her age (young), her origins (mid-western, █
█ desolate), her accelerated scholastic achievements █
█ (high school and college were each completed in █
█ three years) and her diminutive physical size █
█ (4'11", 90 lbs), she has triumphed. She has █
█ emerged as a figurehead ù a self-produced, █
█ self-designed, self-taught independent woman. █
█ █
█ Zola Jesus is not a singer, she is a musician. █
█ Zola Jesus is not a band, it is a solo project. █
█ That is not to say the people who have helped her █
█ along the way were not deeply important. Her █
█ irreplaceable live band (whose drummer Nick █
█ Johnson lends a hand on several tracks here) and █
█ her friend Brian Foote (who co-produced this █
█ album), in addition to the live string players who █
█ contribute here (Sean McCann, Ryan York), were all █
█ crucial in the process. Still, Nika is a woman who █
█ can command a room ù any room ù without needing a █
█ band, a stage, or even a microphone. Her voice is █
█ unmistakable; it cuts right to the core. █
█ █
█ Conatus is a huge leap forward in production, █
█ instrumentation and song structure. The definition █
█ of the title says it all: 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. █
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░ 1. Swords 1:03 ░
░ 2. Avalanche 3:20 ░
░ 3. Vessel 4:42 ░
░ 4. Hikikomori 3:47 ░
░ 5. Ixode 4:14 ░
░ 6. Seekir 3:44 ░
░ 7. In Your Nature 3:27 ░
░ 8. Lick the Palm of the Burning Handshake 4:27 ░
░ 9. Shivers 2:54 ░
░ 10. Skin 4:21 ░
░ 11. Collapse 4:07 ░
░ 40:06 ░
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