After selling out Toynbee Studios, ZOLA JESUS announces a show at Heaven, and releases brand new album Conatus on the 26th of September.

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon / offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as billboard bubblegum, classical aria’s, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own. Nika refines her soulful psalms creating pop songs that are as equally nurturing as they are foreboding, and the great and good have long sung her praises.

EMA impressed critics in May with the release of her debut album, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’. Fans of guitar noise will have crossed paths with EMA as the scorching guitarist in legendary folk / noise outfit Amps For Christ before forming the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Their 2007 album ‘Red State’ was an electronic folk and feedback drenched masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. It sadly proved to be their last. The upside is that that musical crossroads lead to the unveiling of EMA who has since opened for Throbbing Gristle on their last US tour. If there is a grand unifying theory behind ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, it’s that EMA treats fidelity and distortion like another instrument, being obsessed with the question of analogue vs digital. Songs switch seamlessly between lo-fi 4 track grunge, trashy dance beats and damaged girl group ballads, like all the car radio hits of the past fifty years absorbed and sweated out through pores of distortion, feedback and reverence. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, Liz Phair’s intimate and visceral expression or Royal Trux emerging from a basement fug and smelling fresh salty air for the first time, she is a significant talent that completely compels the listener. EMA’s songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying.

After selling out Toynbee Studios, ZOLA JESUS announces a show at Heaven, and releases brand new album Conatus on the 26th of September.

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon / offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as billboard bubblegum, classical aria’s, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own. Nika refines her soulful psalms creating pop songs that are as equally nurturing as they are foreboding, and the great and good have long sung her praises.

EMA impressed critics in May with the release of her debut album, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’. Fans of guitar noise will have crossed paths with EMA as the scorching guitarist in legendary folk / noise outfit Amps For Christ before forming the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Their 2007 album ‘Red State’ was an electronic folk and feedback drenched masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. It sadly proved to be their last. The upside is that that musical crossroads lead to the unveiling of EMA who has since opened for Throbbing Gristle on their last US tour. If there is a grand unifying theory behind ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, it’s that EMA treats fidelity and distortion like another instrument, being obsessed with the question of analogue vs digital. Songs switch seamlessly between lo-fi 4 track grunge, trashy dance beats and damaged girl group ballads, like all the car radio hits of the past fifty years absorbed and sweated out through pores of distortion, feedback and reverence. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, Liz Phair’s intimate and visceral expression or Royal Trux emerging from a basement fug and smelling fresh salty air for the first time, she is a significant talent that completely compels the listener. EMA’s songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying.

After selling out Toynbee Studios, ZOLA JESUS announces a show at Heaven, and releases brand new album Conatus on the 26th of September.

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon / offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as billboard bubblegum, classical aria’s, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own. Nika refines her soulful psalms creating pop songs that are as equally nurturing as they are foreboding, and the great and good have long sung her praises.

EMA impressed critics in May with the release of her debut album, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’. Fans of guitar noise will have crossed paths with EMA as the scorching guitarist in legendary folk / noise outfit Amps For Christ before forming the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Their 2007 album ‘Red State’ was an electronic folk and feedback drenched masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. It sadly proved to be their last. The upside is that that musical crossroads lead to the unveiling of EMA who has since opened for Throbbing Gristle on their last US tour. If there is a grand unifying theory behind ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, it’s that EMA treats fidelity and distortion like another instrument, being obsessed with the question of analogue vs digital. Songs switch seamlessly between lo-fi 4 track grunge, trashy dance beats and damaged girl group ballads, like all the car radio hits of the past fifty years absorbed and sweated out through pores of distortion, feedback and reverence. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, Liz Phair’s intimate and visceral expression or Royal Trux emerging from a basement fug and smelling fresh salty air for the first time, she is a significant talent that completely compels the listener. EMA’s songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying.

After selling out Toynbee Studios, ZOLA JESUS announces a show at Heaven, and releases brand new album Conatus on the 26th of September.

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon / offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as billboard bubblegum, classical aria’s, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own. Nika refines her soulful psalms creating pop songs that are as equally nurturing as they are foreboding, and the great and good have long sung her praises.

EMA impressed critics in May with the release of her debut album, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’. Fans of guitar noise will have crossed paths with EMA as the scorching guitarist in legendary folk / noise outfit Amps For Christ before forming the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Their 2007 album ‘Red State’ was an electronic folk and feedback drenched masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. It sadly proved to be their last. The upside is that that musical crossroads lead to the unveiling of EMA who has since opened for Throbbing Gristle on their last US tour. If there is a grand unifying theory behind ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, it’s that EMA treats fidelity and distortion like another instrument, being obsessed with the question of analogue vs digital. Songs switch seamlessly between lo-fi 4 track grunge, trashy dance beats and damaged girl group ballads, like all the car radio hits of the past fifty years absorbed and sweated out through pores of distortion, feedback and reverence. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, Liz Phair’s intimate and visceral expression or Royal Trux emerging from a basement fug and smelling fresh salty air for the first time, she is a significant talent that completely compels the listener. EMA’s songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying.

After selling out Toynbee Studios, ZOLA JESUS announces a show at Heaven, and releases brand new album Conatus on the 26th of September.

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon / offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as billboard bubblegum, classical aria’s, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own. Nika refines her soulful psalms creating pop songs that are as equally nurturing as they are foreboding, and the great and good have long sung her praises.

EMA impressed critics in May with the release of her debut album, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’. Fans of guitar noise will have crossed paths with EMA as the scorching guitarist in legendary folk / noise outfit Amps For Christ before forming the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Their 2007 album ‘Red State’ was an electronic folk and feedback drenched masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. It sadly proved to be their last. The upside is that that musical crossroads lead to the unveiling of EMA who has since opened for Throbbing Gristle on their last US tour. If there is a grand unifying theory behind ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, it’s that EMA treats fidelity and distortion like another instrument, being obsessed with the question of analogue vs digital. Songs switch seamlessly between lo-fi 4 track grunge, trashy dance beats and damaged girl group ballads, like all the car radio hits of the past fifty years absorbed and sweated out through pores of distortion, feedback and reverence. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, Liz Phair’s intimate and visceral expression or Royal Trux emerging from a basement fug and smelling fresh salty air for the first time, she is a significant talent that completely compels the listener. EMA’s songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying.

After selling out Toynbee Studios, ZOLA JESUS announces a show at Heaven, and releases brand new album Conatus on the 26th of September.

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon / offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as billboard bubblegum, classical aria’s, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own. Nika refines her soulful psalms creating pop songs that are as equally nurturing as they are foreboding, and the great and good have long sung her praises.

EMA impressed critics in May with the release of her debut album, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’. Fans of guitar noise will have crossed paths with EMA as the scorching guitarist in legendary folk / noise outfit Amps For Christ before forming the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Their 2007 album ‘Red State’ was an electronic folk and feedback drenched masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. It sadly proved to be their last. The upside is that that musical crossroads lead to the unveiling of EMA who has since opened for Throbbing Gristle on their last US tour. If there is a grand unifying theory behind ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, it’s that EMA treats fidelity and distortion like another instrument, being obsessed with the question of analogue vs digital. Songs switch seamlessly between lo-fi 4 track grunge, trashy dance beats and damaged girl group ballads, like all the car radio hits of the past fifty years absorbed and sweated out through pores of distortion, feedback and reverence. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, Liz Phair’s intimate and visceral expression or Royal Trux emerging from a basement fug and smelling fresh salty air for the first time, she is a significant talent that completely compels the listener. EMA’s songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying.

After selling out Toynbee Studios, ZOLA JESUS announces a show at Heaven, and releases brand new album Conatus on the 26th of September.

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon / offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as billboard bubblegum, classical aria’s, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own. Nika refines her soulful psalms creating pop songs that are as equally nurturing as they are foreboding, and the great and good have long sung her praises.

EMA impressed critics in May with the release of her debut album, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’. Fans of guitar noise will have crossed paths with EMA as the scorching guitarist in legendary folk / noise outfit Amps For Christ before forming the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Their 2007 album ‘Red State’ was an electronic folk and feedback drenched masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. It sadly proved to be their last. The upside is that that musical crossroads lead to the unveiling of EMA who has since opened for Throbbing Gristle on their last US tour. If there is a grand unifying theory behind ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, it’s that EMA treats fidelity and distortion like another instrument, being obsessed with the question of analogue vs digital. Songs switch seamlessly between lo-fi 4 track grunge, trashy dance beats and damaged girl group ballads, like all the car radio hits of the past fifty years absorbed and sweated out through pores of distortion, feedback and reverence. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, Liz Phair’s intimate and visceral expression or Royal Trux emerging from a basement fug and smelling fresh salty air for the first time, she is a significant talent that completely compels the listener. EMA’s songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying.

After selling out Toynbee Studios, ZOLA JESUS announces a show at Heaven, and releases brand new album Conatus on the 26th of September.

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon / offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as billboard bubblegum, classical aria’s, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own. Nika refines her soulful psalms creating pop songs that are as equally nurturing as they are foreboding, and the great and good have long sung her praises.

EMA impressed critics in May with the release of her debut album, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’. Fans of guitar noise will have crossed paths with EMA as the scorching guitarist in legendary folk / noise outfit Amps For Christ before forming the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Their 2007 album ‘Red State’ was an electronic folk and feedback drenched masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. It sadly proved to be their last. The upside is that that musical crossroads lead to the unveiling of EMA who has since opened for Throbbing Gristle on their last US tour. If there is a grand unifying theory behind ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, it’s that EMA treats fidelity and distortion like another instrument, being obsessed with the question of analogue vs digital. Songs switch seamlessly between lo-fi 4 track grunge, trashy dance beats and damaged girl group ballads, like all the car radio hits of the past fifty years absorbed and sweated out through pores of distortion, feedback and reverence. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, Liz Phair’s intimate and visceral expression or Royal Trux emerging from a basement fug and smelling fresh salty air for the first time, she is a significant talent that completely compels the listener. EMA’s songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying.

After selling out Toynbee Studios, ZOLA JESUS announces a show at Heaven, and releases brand new album Conatus on the 26th of September.

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon / offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as billboard bubblegum, classical aria’s, no-wave, and avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own. Nika refines her soulful psalms creating pop songs that are as equally nurturing as they are foreboding, and the great and good have long sung her praises.

EMA impressed critics in May with the release of her debut album, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’. Fans of guitar noise will have crossed paths with EMA as the scorching guitarist in legendary folk / noise outfit Amps For Christ before forming the genre-defying cult duo Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Their 2007 album ‘Red State’ was an electronic folk and feedback drenched masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. It sadly proved to be their last. The upside is that that musical crossroads lead to the unveiling of EMA who has since opened for Throbbing Gristle on their last US tour. If there is a grand unifying theory behind ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, it’s that EMA treats fidelity and distortion like another instrument, being obsessed with the question of analogue vs digital. Songs switch seamlessly between lo-fi 4 track grunge, trashy dance beats and damaged girl group ballads, like all the car radio hits of the past fifty years absorbed and sweated out through pores of distortion, feedback and reverence. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, Liz Phair’s intimate and visceral expression or Royal Trux emerging from a basement fug and smelling fresh salty air for the first time, she is a significant talent that completely compels the listener. EMA’s songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying.