Zola Jesus shares chilling new existentialist single "Soak"

The track is a harrowing glimpse at a serial killer's victim's final moments - "clinging to life and about to be dumped in the water."

"I was thinking about this crucial moment inside the victim’s mind, when she knows she’s going to die," says Zola Jesus, aka Nika Roza Danilova. "She thinks back at her life and the futility of the decisions she made, when in the end her life would be cut short against her will."

"What’s the point of trying to navigate life if you don’t even get to choose how it ends?" Danilova adds. "Instead of letting her fate be determined by someone else, she takes back control and turns it around, so instead, in her mind, she is choosing to die. She lets the killer assist her in suicide, as she gets tossed into the water and slowly drowns. Through writing this song the story evolved within me, and I saw how it mirrored my own feelings inside."

Okovi is the follow up to 2014's Taiga.

"This album is a deeply personal snapshot of loss, reconciliation, and a sympathy for the chains that keep us all grounded to the unforgiving laws of nature," explains Danilova. "To bring it to life, I decided to enlist the help of Alex DeGroot, who has been the only constant in my live band and helped mix the Stridulum EP back in 2010. It will be released on Sacred Bones, the closest group of people I’ll ever have to blood-bound family."

Producer/musician WIFE, cellist Shannon Kennedy (Pedestrian Deposit), and percussionist Ted Byrnes all also contribute.

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