#ZOLA JESUS VESSEL MEANING WINDOWS#

As such, it is not the optimal entry point for the curious (that would be 2019's The Flower and the Vessel), but deep listening reveals this release to be every bit as absorbing as the rest of Atkinson's recent hot streak.įor the most part, Everything Evaporate is an remarkably apt title for this release, as several of these songs sound like they are heeding that command in real-time.On the opening title piece, however, Atkinson largely picks up exactly where she left off with The Flower and the Vessel.Granted, it is a bit more minimal than usual, as Atkinson's breathy monologue unfolds over an oscillating and gently heaving bed of droning bass tones.Her seductively accented voice remains sharply in focus though, so the heart of the piece is an mysterious, poetic, and evocative spoken word performance.At this stage in her career, Atkinson‚Äôs ASMR-influenced narratives are very much the strongest and most instantly recognizable feature of her work, as she manages to make even mundane phrases like 'can I get a cup of coffee please?' seem pregnant with deep hidden meaning.While her voice is unquestionably the center of everything, however, there are plenty of unpredictable other factors driving and shaping Atkinson‚Äôs recent work, as she seems to draw a significant amount of inspiration from both literature and visual art.And, of course, those 'outside' influences rarely manifest themselves in expected or conventional ways.The following instrumental 'I can't stop thinking about it' is a prime example of how those disparate threads converge, as Atkinson conjures up a surreal miasma of plinking marimbas, chirping birds, and spectral drones.¬†At first, it all feels like a lazily clinking, disjointed, and formless haze, but the drones sneakily increase in richness and intensity for a shimmering and dreamlike crescendo.Notably, that piece also contains an excerpted fragment of a Helen Frankenthaler interview that recounts how she ruined a painting by messing with its fragile ambiguity.While that recording makes up a very small part of the album, its sentiment seems to be the guiding force at the heart of Everything Evaporate.I suspect Atkinson was being quite sincere when she titled the piece 'I can't stop thinking about it.' Partly inspired by the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler and partly intended as 'a reassessed document of public performance with improvised studio interventions acting to break the linear stream of the live-on-stage temporality,' Everything Evaporate is an intriguing and sophisticated release that seems to exist at the borderline of form and dreamlike abstraction. As with all recent Atkinson releases, however, the reality is far more complex, enigmatic, and deeply conceptual than anything that can be easily summarized in just one sentence. Known for identifying up-and-coming artists, the site enables music fans to easily find out what music is hot in the blogosphere and to instantly hear and buy mp3s.This latest release from F√©licia Atkinson is ostensibly a minor and somewhat transitional one, as it is a cassette intended as a sort of culminating document of a year spent traveling and performing. Launched in 2005, The Hype Machine aggregates information from more than 1,000 music blogs worldwide. The Hype Machine's most blogged artists on June 27 10am GMT are:

#ZOLA JESUS VESSEL MEANING WINDOWS#

Nialler9 calls the track 'a head-nodding beat summer jam, perfect for rolled down windows and hot-baked leather arm rests.'

'The trio seems to be developing a nice rapport as ‘Days With You' displays their chemistry through a sultry electro R&B production that moves and grooves around a nostalgic 90′s feeling vocal performance,' writes Site of Sound.

Blood Diamonds: /actuallygrimes/go-1Īfter producing Sinead Harnett's debut track, Snakehips now feature the singer on a track of their own.

Zola jesus vessel meaning