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Zola Jesus
Also Playing: Talk Normal and Chris Connelly
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Tue Feb 21
8 pm
Zola Jesus, Talk Normal, and Chris Connelly at Lincoln Hall
Zola Jesus doesn’t make it all that easy to separate the voice from the mystique. The Madison, Wisconsin project’s 22-year-old diminutive mastermind goes by the name of Nika Roza Danilova, and first gained notice pairing the full-throated, shuddering romance of her vocals with briny, industrial-pop production. She put out the album The Spoils and a busy flurry of EPs and 7-inches over just a couple short years. Her 2011 full-length, Conatus, builds on the diminutive singer’s ethereal aura, with tracks like “Vessel” simultaneously soaring to mist-ringed mountaintops and plodding through rainy, grey cityscapes. It’s a consistently haunting and beautiful record, and an endlessly promising sign of good things to come in the future from this Midwestern nymph.
Lincoln Hall 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL
Zola Jesus doesn’t make it all that easy to separate the voice from the mystique. The Madison, Wisconsin project’s 22-year-old diminutive mastermind goes by the name of Nika Roza Danilova, and first gained notice pairing the full-throated, shuddering romance of her vocals with briny, industrial-pop production. She put out the album The Spoils and a busy flurry of EPs and 7-inches over just a couple short years. Her 2011 full-length, Conatus, builds on the diminutive singer’s ethereal aura, with tracks like “Vessel” simultaneously soaring to mist-ringed mountaintops and plodding through rainy, grey cityscapes. It’s a consistently haunting and beautiful record, and an endlessly promising sign of good things to come in the future from this Midwestern nymph.
Updated 04/30/2012
