The Wisconsin native (now based in L.A) has rocketed from the online electro-goth underground to a forbidding style-mag omnipresence in just two short years.
Conatus is Nika Rosa Danilova AKA Zola Jesus’ third thoroughly bewitching studio album and she has fine tuned the slick and stylish formula of her previous releases into something more sophisticated.
The throaty, emotive voice of Nika Rosa Danilova terrors over wonderful doom-laden synth-rock, abstractly ethereal electronics and goth-infused industrial beats.
It's enchanting, exhausting, cathartic, borderline traumatic, and curiously beautiful to its dying breath, – Conatus is Zola Jesus' most gratifying offering so far.