Riding The Crimson Wave

Zola Jesus
From: Madison, Wisconsin
United States

As we enter the Teenies the music industry is thrashing around desperately searching for the next great musical movement, the next youthquake that will shake the music industry to it's foundations and sweep all before it.

If I was a betting man, and I'm not, I wouldn't be putting any money on Crimsonwave making it as the musical movement of the decade. Which is a real pity because the world won't know what it's missing.

The genre was created, or at least first coined by Nika Danilova, otherwise known as Zola Jesus, to describe a movement of left field "wierdo women from the Midwest" producing music to please themselves in their bedrooms. It was was chosen for it's association with menstrual blood and, according to Danilova, it unfortunately stuck.

Whether her sound is Crimsonwave, or lo-fi Goth, or whatever pigeonhole you want to try to put her in Zola Jesus is bloody brilliant! Check out 'Clay Bodies' which is the ugly twin sister of The Shangri-Las and The Jesus & Mary Chain and will no doubt give the more sensitive souls among the Devil's readers nightmares for weeks to come. It's a modern goth album that'll single-handedly resurrect the kohl and black nail varnish markets.

Get set for the resurrection of Zola Jesus.

Go Try

MP3 - Zola Jesus - Clay Bodies
MP3 - Zola Jesus - Devil Take You
If anyone from the IFPI is reading these tracks are all linked direct from the Zola Jesus Last.FM site and are all therefore freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.
MP3 - Zola Jesus - Dog
If anyone from the IFPI is reading this track is linked direct from the Zola Jesus website and is therefore freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.

Go Visit

Zola Jesus - Myspace // Website // Last.FM

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Zola Jesus
Clay Bodies