Sacred Bones bringen Ende Mai das neue und somit achte reguläre Studioalbum von Nika Roza Danilovas Projekt Zola Jesus heraus. “Arkhon” ist ein instrumentell üppig ausgestaltetes Werk, bei dem neben Danilovas Gesang und Elektronik die Arbeit von (nicht nur) Produzent Randall Dunn, Synthie-Virtuose Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe und Perkussionist Matt Chamberlain sowie ein opulentes Ensemble an Bläsern und STreichern eine große Rolle Spielt. Das Album erscheint in allen gängigen Formaten inkusive Spezial-Edition, das atemlose “Lost” ist bereits im Stream zu hören.

“There is a way a voice can cut through the fascia of reality, cleaving through habit into the raw nerve of experience. Nika Roza Danilova, the singer, songwriter, and producer who since 2009 has released music as Zola Jesus, wields a voice that does that. When you hear it, it is like you are being summoned — not to somewhere new, but to a place that’s already wrapped inside you, somewhere previously obscured from conscious experience. This place has been buried because it tends to hold pain, but it’s also a gift, because once it’s opened, once you’re inside of it, it can show you the truth. Zola Jesus’s new album, Arkhon, finds new ways of losing that submerged, stalled pain. Not long after she had started writing the songs that would comprise the record, Danilova found herself stuck in a creative barrens, a spell of writer’s block more stifling than any she’d experienced before.” (Sacred Bones)