"This record has a real naturalistic tone. It feels like hearing a flower open up, but really, it's the awakening of an emotional cyborg. All right, so a little bit of a late pass here. We are going to talk about Oklou, a French singer who has one of the year's best, dreamiest and spaciest albums. It's called Choke Enough."
"There's also a recent collaboration with PinkPantheress, and what that tells me is that Oklou is finding common cause with a generation of young performers, especially women, who are finding the overlap between memory, abstraction and tenderness. It feels like true machine love rendered by a human. Sweet but also incredibly pungent. And FKA twigs comes in and you can tell kind of wants to rise to the moment, sees a real peer. When you listen to this song, there's this relentless optimism."
Oklou's album Choke Enough, now released in a deluxe edition, features the standout track 'Viscus', a collaboration with FKA twigs. The music combines warm, naturalistic tones with icy digital production, producing a dreamlike, spacious atmosphere. The sound evokes both the opening of a flower and the awakening of an emotional cyborg, blending memory, abstraction and tenderness. Recent collaborations with FKA twigs and PinkPantheress show Oklou aligning with a generation of young women exploring machine-inflected intimacy. The music conveys a sense of relentless optimism and belief in love while finding safety in technological abstraction, suggesting viscosity as an aesthetic quality in modern music.
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