Album Review: Zola Jesus - Taiga

“Do you wish you could go back to it all?” These are rather auspicious lyrics for an album that is such a marked turn from where this singer began.

The fourth proper studio album from electro-clash/post-punk/gothic songstress Zola Jesus is certainly her most confident to date. Her vocals now soar and boom above grooving electro clicks and pulses, a far cry from the haunting industrial scream of earlier Zola. The change, while jarring, is still exciting because of her mastery of songcraft. Who would’ve thought one of the year’s finest pop records would come from these mighty lungs?