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Riff: Zola Jesus – “Go (Blank Sea)”

Sep 23, 2014

Who can offer an honest answer/With all these lies we’re living in?/Who can give me what I’m after/In this cold saturation?

from Go (Blank Sea) lyrics by Zola Jesus

“Go” is more original, “colder,” and gut-wrenching than the album’s previous single. This bombastically big cut, centered on yearning, anonymity, and a general sense of melancholy, does indeed “give better than it takes;” [LISTEN].

Riff by Karl Ernest

Karl is a Seattle-based musician and writer at SONGLYRICS; a veteran of both east and west-coast scenes, he has performed with the likes of The Ying Yang Twins, David Arquette, Wynton Marsalis, among others. But he's no stranger to seedy dives or house shows, either.

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