Conatus (Bonus Track Version)Zola Jesus · 2011

pitchfork

7.7

“The albums and EPs Nika Roza Danilova issued over the last couple of years were startlingly realized for such a young artist. Conatus, a big record that keeps turning dark and strident, makes them seem like warning shots.”

rollingstone

6.0

“Zola Jesus frontwoman Nika Roza Danilova is a goth in the sadwhite-girl sense as well as the creepy-European-cathedral sense. Stretching a baroque, husky Russian-American voice over tracks that cover up the disco in black crepe paper, the 22-year-old Wisconsin native comes on like Florence Welch doing hemlock shots. The second Zola Jesus disc could have spelunked […]”