“We'll start with the obvious: Nika Danilova's voice is an elemental, powerful thing. It doesn't take long for listeners to use "force of nature." Her output as Zola Jesus has been something of a parable of humanity's instinct to control and corral nature—whether it was the lo-fi production of her earliest work, the focused pop structures of Stridulum, Conatus' muted electronics, or their orchestra”
