French vocalist, producer and composer Oklou announces debut album ‘choke enough’ due Feb 7th 2025 via True Panther. The announcement comes alongside the title track, “choke enough,” and is an embodiment of the project’s quest for meaning, of the need to be touched by anything; a grandiose epiphany or a passing quotidien moment. Oklou’s debut album was developed with co-producers Casey MQ, Danny L Harle and A. G. Cook, and features Bladee and underscores. The album is a reflection on the subconscious and conscious demands of an artistic psychology, as well as existing and creating in a brief and transient life. choke enough is filled with warm production, pairing ambient sounds with minimal club rhythms, delicate synthesizer arpeggios and found sound samples.
Oklou shares, “’choke enough’ is a very intense album for me. It’s filled with directions, tentatives and irregularities, reflecting on my last years on this planet as my heart and conscience has really decentered from myself.”
The new single follows several recently released tracks “harvest sky,,” featuring Bay Area artist underscores, sensuous companion, “obvious” and “family and friends,” which came alongside a Gil Gharbi directed music video, which will all be included on the forthcoming album.Speaking further about the new single “choke enough” and its place on the album Oklou adds, “This title track is important enough to have been chosen as the title track. Not sure whether it’s because it’s one of the oldest sounds of the record, or simply my favorite? Maybe it’s because it holds an important question that I’m trying to display within the entire album; what situations are we ready to put ourselves into in order to provoke sensations and drama, in order to feel alive.”
choke enough
1. endless
2. thank you for recording
3. family and friends
4. obvious
5. ict
6. choke enough
7. (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)
8. take me by the hand feat. Bladee
9. plague dogs
10. forces
11. harvest sky feat. underscores
12. want to want to come back
13. blade bird
Tour Dates / TICKETS
Europe
25/2/25 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega Main Hall – VENUE UPGRADE
27/2/25 – Berlin, Germany @ Columbia Theatre SOLD OUT
01/3/225 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg SOLD OUT
02/3/25 – Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique
04/3/25 – Paris, France @ La Cigale – SOLD OUT
05/3/25 – Paris, France @ La Cigale
07/3/25 – London, UK @ Heaven
North America
18/3/25 – Toronto, Canada @ Axis Club
19/3/25 – Montreal, Canada @ Le Studio TD
21/3/25 – New York, NY @ Elsewhere SOLD OUT
22/3/25 – New York, NY @ Elsewhere – NEW DATE
24/3/25 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
25/3/25 – Austin, TX @ 3Ten ACL Live
28/3/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey
29/3/25 – San Francisco, CA @ Independent