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90
Arkhon is filled to the brim with so many eclectic ideas that, with a different writer or vocalist, could end up too cluttered.
80
Her seventh album still matches any of its predecessors while achieving both a greater sense of sweep and a little more variety.
80
An album of just Danilova's entrancing voice would be sufficiently good, but ARKHON shows a restless creativity that warrants all of your attention.
80
Some of the changes she introduces don't seem necessary until they're heard, but they're all in service to her commitment to using sound in powerfully empathetic ways.
80
A stripped back approach sees Nika Rosa Danilova forge a new way forward out of the darkness on sixth album.
78
In her vastest music yet, the Slavic-American art-pop musician walks through the fires of turbulence and emerges a more balanced person.
73
Much of the album ... including tracks that are ultimately effective, finds the artist seemingly undergoing a bit of an aesthetic crisis – struggling to embody sonic and lyrical themes, battling with mixes she can’t quite corral.
71
Nika Roza Danilova’s sixth record is more collaborative, widening the scope of her music and taking big leaps while retaining its primal, gothic spirit.
70
Danilova's biggest-sounding album to date.
70
Not a perfect album, but a perfect amalgamation of Zola Jesus’ journey as an artist up to this point. The powers that be are playing a game that they themselves rigged, and in response, Zola Jesus is playing her own game on her own terms.
60
Arkhon is not an unenjoyable listen; it’s just expectedly complacent, in opposition to the suggestion of boundary-breaking that the work of Zola Jesus evokes.
60
Arkhon is an impressively solid album, if sometimes lacking in originality. It confirms the place of Zola Jesus in the pantheon of dark and slightly twisted contemporary pop.
Lost - 4/5
The Fall - 4/5
Undertow - 3/5
Into the Wild - 3/5
Dead & Gone - 3/5
Sewn - 4/5
Desire - 4/5
Fault - 4/5
Efemra - 3/5
Do That Anymore - 4/5
This latest project from Zola Jesus is peculiar! I haven't listened to a lot of her music, but I still found this album to be grand in its instrumentation in a way that it's not melodramatic and focused in its lyrics. The best part of the album though is Zola's vocals, which are really impressive! While these qualities are maintained through almost every song on here, there's just something that doesn't work for me: I personally value a lot the emotions that an album makes me feel, and ... read more
Zola Jesus's new album feels like a eletronic mystic journey into the deep and vast feeling of sensorial music.
Sacred Bones should find some ivestors to promote their singers better. Zola Jesus and Spelling need more recognition. Okovi and Arkhon are great albums. She does those beautiful sad pop ballads like Witness, Into the Wild or Desire....I'm glad I discovered this artist as a hidden treasure few years ago.
Lost · 8.2
The Fall · 8.8
Undertow · 8.5
Into The Wild · 8.4
Dead & Gone · 7.7
Sewn · 9.3
Desire · 7.3
Fault · 8
Efemra · 8.7
Do That Anymore · 8.5
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likes: 10/10
overall final score: 83.40
favs: Sewn • The Fall • Efemra • Do That Anymore
least fav: Desire
worst: ✘
skips: ✘
dreamy and well textured
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Track List
| 1 | Lost 3:24 | 78 |
| 2 | The Fall 4:03 | 76 |
| 3 | Undertow 4:13 | 76 |
| 4 | Into the Wild 4:14 | 76 |
| 5 | Dead & Gone 3:11 | 78 |
| 6 | Sewn 5:39 | 84 |
| 7 | Desire 5:01 | 79 |
| 8 | Fault 4:13 | 77 |
| 9 | Efemra 3:48 | 77 |
| 10 | Do That Anymore 4:11 | 77 |
Total Length: 42 minutes
Year End Lists
| #39 | / | Slant Magazine |
| #39 | / | Treble |
| #100 | / | Rough Trade (UK) |
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in today's episode of 'not so fun facts', zola jesus is the cousin of 2020 presidential candidate amy klobuchar
Added on: March 22, 2022