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| Metacritic | (79/100)[1] |
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
| BBC Music | (7/10)[3] |
| Consequence of Sound | [4] |
| Guardian | [5] |
| NME | (7/10)[6] |
| SPIN |   [7] |
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| COMA Music Magazine | (Favorable)[8] |
Conatus is the third album by Zola Jesus, released on September 26 in the UK (October 4 in the US) via Sacred Bones Records. The album was produced by Brian Foote (aka Nudge: Jackie-O Motherfucker, Cloudland Canyon) and Nika Rosa Danilova herself.[9]
Background
Several critics noticed that the new album sound different from Zola Jesus’ earlier works. "I just wanted to try out new ways to produce and different ways to write. And with this new record it's a lot more stripped down and there are way more acoustic elements as opposed to no acoustic elements… I just wanted more breathing room, so people could insert their own experiences into the song, their own feelings into the song, as opposed to me forcing it on them with the densest sound possible", Nika Rosa explained. Speaking to the Prefix magazine after her performance at the Pitchfork Music festival, she said she wanted the album to be a step forward. "…In doing that, there was so, so much trial and error and so much quitting music at the end of the day", she admitted. Danilova said that the title of the album (meaning 'Moving forward' in Latin) appeared before the work on it began. "I had it in mind beforehand because I knew that's what I was going through even before I sat down to work on the record, I was already going through that emotional process of trying to push myself", she said.[10]
Answering the question about how and why the new album was different from her previous records, Danilova said:
It was the longest I've had to record an album, which was… three to o five months. Which, to me, was way too much time and at the same time not enough. But I added acoustic elements, like live drums and strings which was very new to me. Plus I worked with a producer for the first time, mixing the record and producing it, which I had never done before… And just the way I wrote it was much different, because with everything I wrote, if it sounded too much like something I'd written before like something I'm used to writing, I'd throw away the song and start over.[10]
Brian Foote, Danilova's friend, has been bought in when she realized she had too much of ideas to sort them out. "Some of them weren't really a good fit, as I found out during the process, and by the end I kind of realised that I needed someone to help me along the way. So, it made sense to ask Brian as he's a great friend of mine that also lives in Los Angeles and he has a great studio with lots of resources. He helped oversee the production of the record and made sure that everything was done on time and nothing was missed out during recording and it worked out just perfect", she said.[11] It was easy for her to work with Foote who, understanding that she was a "control freak… tried to step away a lot". Yet, he'd got a lot of "great suggestions about how to change little things to make them more effective", according to Danilova, and also let her use his "amazing synth collection" which helped the songs grow.[10]
For the first time ever Danilova has brought in session musicians: Nick Johnson (drums, who is also a member of her live band), Sean McCann (viola, violin) and Ryan York (cello, double bass). "I can't play violin or cello or stand-up bass, or drums. I can play keyboards, kind of. So all the keyboard parts I wrote and played, and then I would send the string parts that I had wrote on the keyboard to the string players and they would just mimic that. Same with the drums. I try to do as much as possible, still, but I wish I could play drums", she explained.[10]
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Track listing
All tracks are written by Zola Jesus
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Swords" | 1:03 |
| 2. | "Avalanche Danilova" | 3:20 |
| 3. | "Vessel Danilova" | 4:42 |
| 4. | "Hikikomori" | 3:47 |
| 5. | "Ixode Danilova" | 4:14 |
| 6. | "Seekir" | 3:44 |
| 7. | "In Your Nature" | 3:27 |
| 8. | "Lick the Palm of the Burning Handshake" | 4:27 |
| 9. | "Shivers" | 2:54 |
| 10. | "Skin" | 4:21 |
| 11. | "Collapse" | 4:07 |
| Total length: | 40:06 | |
References
- ^ a b "Critic reviews for Conatus". www.metacritic.com. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|datepublished=(help) - ^ Phares, Heather. "Conatus review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|datepublished=(help) - ^ Long, Jen. "Zola Jesus Conatus review". BBC Music. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|datepublished=ignored (help) - ^ Mojica, Frank. "Zola Jesus: Conatus". consequenceofsound.net. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|datepublished=(help) - ^ Rebecca Nicholson. "Zola Jesus: Conatus – review". www.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|datepublished=(help) - ^ Mackay, Emilie. "Zola Jesus, Conatus review". NME. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|datepublished=(help) - ^ Hopper, Jessica. "Zola Jesus: Conatus". www.spin.com. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|datepublished=(help) - ^ :CD Review: Zola Jesus – Conatus COMA Music Magazine
- ^ "Zola Jesus announces new album: Conatus". Consequence of Sound. June 29th, 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c d Bosman, Chris. "Zola Jesus: Interview At Pitchfork Music Festival 2011". www.prefixmag.com. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|datepublished=(help) - ^ "Zola Jesus interview". www.contactmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|datepublished=(help) - ^ "Conatus. Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
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