The Spoils

by Zola Jesus

The Spoils cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 July 2009
  • Label: Sacred Bones
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 50:34
  • Community rating: 3.39/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The debut full-length from Nika Roza Danilova is a lo-fi, deeply abrasive introduction to her operatic darkwave aesthetic. Recorded largely in her Wisconsin apartment, the tracks drown her powerful, classically trained vocals in layers of industrial distortion and primitive drum machines. It laid the gritty, gothic foundation for her eventual ascension in the dark-pop landscape.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, downtempo, electronic, deconstructed

Tracklist

  1. Six Feet (From My Baby)
  2. Crowns
  3. Sinfonia and the Shrew
  4. Sink the Dynasty
  5. Devil Take You
  6. Lullaby In Tongues
  7. Smirenye
  8. Clay Bodies
  9. In Hiding From The Crow
  10. Tell It To The Willow

Credits

  • Zola Jesus - primary artist
  • Indra Dunis - photography by, photography

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