Zola Jesus - Conatus - 180g LP

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Zola Jesus - Conatus - 180g LP
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180g Limited Edition, Album, White marbled Vinyl

In the vein of titles like Valusia and Stridulum, Zola Jesus' Conatus has a name that will send listeners scrambling for the dictionary. The term, which refers to the will to survive and evolve, couldn’t be more fitting for this set of songs. Nika Roza Danilova appears swathed in white on the album’s cover, the polar opposite of the blue-black murk that covered her on Stridulum. As on that album, the grime of her earlier work is gone, but where Stridulum reached out with somber reassurance, Conatus is internal, examining destruction, surrender, survival, and rebirth up close. “Hikikomori” takes its name from the Japanese term for people who withdraw from society, and revels in solitude even though its beat could set a dancefloor in motion. “Ixode,” meanwhile, uses a hard-bodied tick as inspiration for its subtly insistent warmth. Conatus' sound also feels like the other side of Stridulum's clarity, presenting fractured beats and electronics (it’s no coincidence that Danilova made her Warp Records debut in a collaboration with Prefuse 73 earlier in 2011) alongside strings and other organic elements in a pristine studio setting: the single “Vessel” presents a seamless mesh of tightly coiled, robotic rhythms and Danilova's ricocheting vocals.

Tracklist
A1 Swords 1:03
A2 Avalanche 3:20
A3 Vessel 4:42
A4 Hikikomori 3:47
A5 Ixode 4:14
A6 Seekir 3:44
B1 In Your Nature 3:27
B2 Lick The Palm Of The Burning Handshake 4:27
B3 Shivers 2:54
B4 Skin 4:21
B5 Collapse
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