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Flick Chicks: A guide to women in the movies by Mindy Kaling →
When a beautiful actress is cast in a movie, executives rack their brains to find some kind of flaw in the character she plays that will still allow her to be palatable. She can’t be overweight or not perfect-looking, because who would pay to see that? A female who is not one hundred per cent perfect-looking in every way? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours.
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Moroccan Nude, by Walery, c.1920s
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“They obviously don’t have an adjective count, because they just use the same ones over and over again: Goth. Brooding. Dark. Siouxsie Sioux is an adjective now, I guess. The thing is, I’ve never identified myself. I’ve always known exactly what I liked and what I didn’t like, but it never had any title. You read these things about yourself because you’re so excited you’re being written about, but the more you read, the more you hate yourself.” - Nika Danilova of Zola Jesus (Fader)
The new Zola Jesus album, “Conatus,” is out today in the United States. In celebration, let’s see how many times “Goth” comes up in reviews.
“Zola Jesus frontwoman Nika Roza Danilova is a goth in the sad white-girl sense as well as the creepy-European-cathedral sense.” - Rolling Stone
“There aren’t many people who would namecheck Christina Aguilera and Nietzsche in the same breath, but blonde goth siren Zola Jesus, aka Nika Roza Danilova, says she owes as much to bubblegum pop as early existential philosophy.” - Dazed Digital
The Wisconsin native, now based in L.A., has certainly made one, rocketing from the online electro-goth underground to a forbidding style-mag omnipresence in just two years. […] her hidden message here often amounts to an inversion of Joy Division’s goth-canonical “Love Will Tear Us Apart” - Los Angeles Times
“The sombre hue of her songs, meanwhile, and the industrial bent of her music, make that pesky goth tag hard to duck.” - The Guardian
“On Conatus, her third studio album as nu-goth rock persona Zola Jesus, Danilova delivers a haunting testament to just how powerful — and versatile — the human voice can be.” - The Guardian (University of California, San Diego)
“When an artist thrusts a term back into circulation as forcefully as Zola Jesus has “Goth,” it’s not a bad idea to pause and consider what we’re actually talking about.” - SF Appeal
“These are bright times for goths – not in the sense of sunshine causing consternation as it breaks into their gloomy lairs, but rather in the sense of there being a lot of gothy music around at the moment. Following superb debuts from Austra and Anna Calvi earlier this year comes Zola Jesus’s third album in which the Arizona singer sings her deep, resonant stuff over ornate synths and foreboding beats.” - Financial Times
“The bleakness of Nika Rosa Danilova’s one-girl goth group was born from the no-fi Midwestern oppression of her Madison, Wisconsin bedroom. All those long winters being the witchy nerd in a Big Ten college town.” - SPIN Magazine
“Zola Jesus is the recording alias of Russian-American singer Nika Roza Danilova, raised in Wisconsin and, at the age of 22, already on to her third album of neo-goth atmospherics.” - The Independent
“Under her stage name Zola Jesus, the opera-trained Danilova has paired vocals that are akin to a siren’s call with neo-gothic synths that carry the listener to an often sinister land of mystery.” - Consequence of Sound
“Danilova doesn’t especially like it when people pigeonhole her as a goth, but for many of us, no other term will do.” - Stereogum
Sorry Nika, but I think the tag is gonna stick, you might want to get Peter Murphy on the phone and ask for some advice. In any case, “Conatus” is an excellent album with or without the “G” word being invoked. A powerful, emotive, statement that, yes, evokes some classic Goth/Darkwave sounds.
Yep, the Bastard music media have done it again and started re-using the same term for an artist that is going to haunt them for the rest of their career. Like Catholicism or Herpes, I doubt Zola Jesus is ever going to get over the g-word that will hang over her career.
Hey Laura Sheeran, are you reading this? If so then at the rate you’re going, you could easily find yourself with the same tag. Just look after yourself, ok?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsjxr3FhdI1qbo09uo1_1280.jpg)
“They obviously don’t have an adjective count, because they just use the same ones over and over again: Goth. Brooding. Dark. Siouxsie Sioux is an adjective now, I guess. The thing is, I’ve never identified myself. I’ve always known exactly what I liked and what I didn’t like, but it never had any title. You read these things about yourself because you’re so excited you’re being written about, but the more you read, the more you hate yourself.” - Nika Danilova of Zola Jesus (Fader)
The new Zola Jesus album, “Conatus,” is out today in the United States. In celebration, let’s see how many times “Goth” comes up in reviews.
“Zola Jesus frontwoman Nika Roza Danilova is a goth in the sad white-girl sense as well as the creepy-European-cathedral sense.” - Rolling Stone
“There aren’t many people who would namecheck Christina Aguilera and Nietzsche in the same breath, but blonde goth siren Zola Jesus, aka Nika Roza Danilova, says she owes as much to bubblegum pop as early existential philosophy.” - Dazed Digital
The Wisconsin native, now based in L.A., has certainly made one, rocketing from the online electro-goth underground to a forbidding style-mag omnipresence in just two years. […] her hidden message here often amounts to an inversion of Joy Division’s goth-canonical “Love Will Tear Us Apart” - Los Angeles Times
“The sombre hue of her songs, meanwhile, and the industrial bent of her music, make that pesky goth tag hard to duck.” - The Guardian
“On Conatus, her third studio album as nu-goth rock persona Zola Jesus, Danilova delivers a haunting testament to just how powerful — and versatile — the human voice can be.” - The Guardian (University of California, San Diego)
“When an artist thrusts a term back into circulation as forcefully as Zola Jesus has “Goth,” it’s not a bad idea to pause and consider what we’re actually talking about.” - SF Appeal
“These are bright times for goths – not in the sense of sunshine causing consternation as it breaks into their gloomy lairs, but rather in the sense of there being a lot of gothy music around at the moment. Following superb debuts from Austra and Anna Calvi earlier this year comes Zola Jesus’s third album in which the Arizona singer sings her deep, resonant stuff over ornate synths and foreboding beats.” - Financial Times
“The bleakness of Nika Rosa Danilova’s one-girl goth group was born from the no-fi Midwestern oppression of her Madison, Wisconsin bedroom. All those long winters being the witchy nerd in a Big Ten college town.” - SPIN Magazine
“Zola Jesus is the recording alias of Russian-American singer Nika Roza Danilova, raised in Wisconsin and, at the age of 22, already on to her third album of neo-goth atmospherics.” - The Independent
“Under her stage name Zola Jesus, the opera-trained Danilova has paired vocals that are akin to a siren’s call with neo-gothic synths that carry the listener to an often sinister land of mystery.” - Consequence of Sound
“Danilova doesn’t especially like it when people pigeonhole her as a goth, but for many of us, no other term will do.” - Stereogum
Sorry Nika, but I think the tag is gonna stick, you might want to get Peter Murphy on the phone and ask for some advice. In any case, “Conatus” is an excellent album with or without the “G” word being invoked. A powerful, emotive, statement that, yes, evokes some classic Goth/Darkwave sounds.
Yep, the Bastard music media have done it again and started re-using the same term for an artist that is going to haunt them for the rest of their career. Like Catholicism or Herpes, I doubt Zola Jesus is ever going to get over the g-word that will hang over her career.
Hey Laura Sheeran, are you reading this? If so then at the rate you’re going, you could easily find yourself with the same tag. Just look after yourself, ok?
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On November 7/8th, 4AD will be issuing a boxset of all three This Mortal Coil albums. Each record has been re-mastered from the original analogue studio tapes by John Dent at Loud Mastering, to achieve the best digital sound available today.
Additionally there is a fourth album, Dust & Guitars, that compiles all the singles, including an unreleased one that was to have been part of the Rough Trade Singles Club and features the otherwise unavailable recording of Neil Young’s ‘We Never Danced’.
The HDCD albums are packaged in paper sleeves printed to the highest standard by the Ichikudo company in Japan, along with inner sleeves and booklets. They are released in a very limited edition box set, with the box itself a deluxe two-piece.
The official three albums have re-designed sleeves by Ivo Watts-Russell and Vaughan Oliver, 4AD’s long time visual partner, which cater to the reduced size, feature gatefold sleeves, and remain inspired by the originals. The fourth album, which won’t be available to general retail outside the box set, incorporates unseen images of Pallas Citroën, the ‘face’ of This Mortal Coil.
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