Music News

French vocalist, producer and composer Oklou – announces debut album ‘choke enough’ + shares title track

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

Ian Mc Donnell

Recent Posts

Cian Ducrot / Jamie McIntyre – live gallery and review from Trinity Summer Series, Trinity College Dublin 03.07.2026

As the fifth night of MCD's Trinity Summer Series unfolded beneath the historic surroundings of…

15 hours ago

Natasha Bedingfield / Stephanie Rainey – live gallery and review from Live at the Marquee, Cork 02.07.2026

Cork native Stephanie Rainey opens the night with the kind of voice that requires very…

18 hours ago

Dylan Gossett / Brenn! – live gallery and review from Iveagh Gardens, Dublin 03.07.2026

The evening at the Iveagh Gardens kicked off with a deeply authentic and captivating performance…

20 hours ago

Glen Hansard / Josh O’Keefe – live gallery and review from Trinity Summer Series, Trinity College Dublin 01.07.2026

A Night of Rock, Friendship, Storytelling, Folk, Rebel Songs and Pure Joy For reasons unknown,…

21 hours ago

Irish artist Sailing Stones – beautifully compelling sophomore album ‘Slow Magic’, out now

Irish born and Bristol-based artist Sailing Stones' highly anticipated sophomore album, exploring the complexities of matrescence, Slow Magic is out…

21 hours ago

Afterdrive – drop electrifying new single ‘Neon View’

Following the breakout success of their alt-pop anthem Fashion, rising pop-rock heavyweights AFTERDRIVE have unleashed…

22 hours ago