Okovi is slated for release on 8 September via Sacred Bones
Singer-songwriter and producer Nicole Hummel – aka Zola Jesus – has announced that she’ll be releasing her new album Okovi this year as the follow-up to 2014’s Taiga.
In a press statement, she details how she moved back to her hometown in Wisconsin to record the new album – “a deeply personal snapshot of loss, reconciliation, and a sympathy for the chains that keep us all grounded to the unforgiving laws of nature”.
“Okovi is a Slavic word for shackles,” she explains. “We’re all shackled to something – to life, to death, to bodies, to minds, to illness, to people, to birthright, to duty.”
“While writing Okovi, I endured people very close to me trying to die, and others trying desperately not to. Meanwhile, I was fighting through a haze so thick I wasn’t sure I’d find my way to the other side. Death, in all of its masks, has been encircling everyone I love, and with it the questions of legacy, worth, and will,” she says.
Accompanying the album announcement is the heavy and charged new single Exhumed and a US tour, with a date locked in for London’s Village Underground at the end (7 November).
Listen to Exhumed in the player above, and check out the new artwork with tracklist below.
Tracklist
1. Doma
2. Exhumed
3. Soak
4. Ash to Bone
5. Witness
6. Siphon
7. Veka
8. Wiseblood
9. NMO
10. Remains
11. Half Life
