Tim Saccenti
Zola Jesus has announced her new album Okovi.
“Last year, I moved back to the woods in Wisconsin where I was raised,” Nika Danilova has said of the record. “I built a little house just steps away from where my dilapidated childhood tree fort is slowly recombining into earth. Okovi was fed by this return to roots and several very personal traumas.”
“While writing Okovi, I endured people very close to me trying to die, and others trying desperately not to. Meanwhile, I was fighting through a haze so thick I wasn’t sure I’d find my way to the other side. Death, in all of its masks, has been encircling everyone I love, and with it the questions of legacy, worth, and will.”
“Okovi is a Slavic word for shackles. We’re all shackled to something—to life, to death, to bodies, to minds, to illness, to people, to birthright, to duty. Each of us born with a unique debt, and we have until we die to pay it back. Without this cost, what gives us the right to live? And moreover, what gives us the right to die? Are we really even free to choose?”
Okovi is released on September 8th.
Okovi tracklist:
Doma
Exhumed
Soak
Ash to Bone
Witness
Siphon
Veka
Wiseblood
NMO
Remains
Half Life