Taiga

"Shimmering showtunes like the widescreen 'Lawless' and the magnificent 'Hollow' are veiled in darkness and sleek electronica while 'Dangerous Days' makes up for the title-track's absence of an obvious hook. Gloomy as it is, there are some brilliant flashes of light to be found here".

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"Fans might be a little disappointed that there's nothing like 'Night' or 'Run Me Out' on this record, but the sense of the gothic, coupled with the anxiety and vulnerability that ran through Stridulum and Conatus isn't really appropriate here and it's certainly not where Nika Danilova's head is at right now. Perhaps that will lose some fans, but Zola Jesus is more likely to gain new fans thanks to an album that revels in its ambitions. Ultimately Taiga is sonically different to its predecessors, but at heart it feels like a true continuation of Zola Jesus' story. This is what it sounds like when an artist matures, discovers a confidence they perhaps never knew they had, and return, revitalised".