Kevin Bronson on June 29th, 2011

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It says here that Nika Roza Danilova is 4-foot-11, 90 pounds. As Zola Jesus, the white-robed sprite is a lot bigger, and growing by the minute. Her second album, “Conatus,” will be out Oct. 4 (on Sacred Bones Records), and the teaser track “Vessel” finds the 22-year-old electro-experimentalist full-throated and daunting, wailing her way out of a sonic cocoon of filthy synths and filthier beats. It’s as dark as anything dressed in black.

||| Download: “Vessel”

||| Live: Zola Jesus will be one of the special guests (along with Beck, Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear, Sean Lennon and others) at the Serge Gainsbourg Tribute at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 28.