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Zola Jesus: Okovi review – a perfect hybrid | Musique Non Stop

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Sunday, September 10, 2017

Zola Jesus: Okovi review – a perfect hybrid

(Sacred Bones)

Returning to long-term label Sacred Bones after a sojourn at Mute for 2014’s relatively poppy Taiga, Nika Roza Danilova has perfected her hybrid of industrial electronics and gothic power balladry on her fifth album. Bearing aloft a forensic inquiry into mortality and loss on the wings of her formidable voice, she soars from the shuddering strings and chilly wails of Exhumed to the trip-hop grandeur of Soak and the sweeping romanticism of Witness, via Siphon’s warm assurance of unflinching support to a friend on the edge (“We’d rather clean the blood of a living man”). An album to light the way through the darkest hours.

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by Emily Mackay via Electronic music | The Guardian

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