[3] With its more sophisticated sound, Stridulum was still self-recorded over two hurried weeks between college semesters in Danilova's bedroom, rushed so it could be released in time for the 2010 South by Southwest festival.

[4] No assistants were involved, except for friend Alex DeGroot who helped to record her vocals and mix the songs.

[5]The EP's subject matter was described as 'macabre'; Danilova, who rejects the "goth" label, often uses themes of death and the Apocalypse.

"I just really like that desperation that comes with the end of the world, and the aesthetics of everything being chaos, and everyone just running around in anarchy and crying and throwing up over each other", she commented.

[4] Next to Zola Jesus' debut album, Stridulum was described as "an infinitely grander EP that rumbles in deference to The Cure's Pornography and suggests Björk or a moodier Bat for Lashes in its towering production".