Scene and heard: American Gothic | Louis Pattison

Zola Jesus is the moody harbinger of a new crop of US underground acts updating the gothic rock aestheticAn amazing record came out a couple of weeks back. It's called Stridulum, it's six tracks long, and it's the work of a 21-year old vocalist from Madison, Wisconsin named Nika Roza Danilova who records under the name Zola Jesus. Nika is a former opera student, and that really shows in her music: huge, heart-wrenching songs powered forth on epic synth and crashing war drums. She is also, as you...

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