Preorder here: Zola Jesus - Conatus Availability: Pre-Order CD Digipak Release date: 26.09.2011 souterraintransmissions.frocksteady.com Info: Zola Jesus will release her new album, Conatus, on Souterrain Transmissions on September 26th, 2011. The follow up to 2010's Stridulum II, the album's release will be preceded by festival dates this summer, with headline shows around release coming soon. In the last three years, Nika Roza Danilova has gone from being an outsider experimental teenage noise-maker to a full-fledged, internationally celebrated electronic pop musician. It was a huge feat to accomplish, and despite her age (young), her geography (mid-western, desolate), her accelerated scholastic requirements (high school and college were completed in three years each) and her diminutive physical size (4"11, 90 lbs), she has triumphed. She has emerged as a figurehead - a self-produced, self-designed, self-taught independent woman. Zola Jesus is not a band; it is a solo project. Zola Jesus is not a singer; she is a musician. It has always been so. That is not to say the people who have helped her along the way were not deeply important. Her irreplaceable live band, whose drummer Nick Johnson lends a hand on several tracks here, and her friend Brian Foote who co-produced this album in addition to the live string players (Sean McCann, Ryan York) who contribute here were all crucial in the process. Nika, however, is a woman who can command a room - any room - without needing ...