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Choke Enough (stylised in lowercase) is the debut studio album by French musician, singer and producer Oklou. It released on 7 February 2025, via True Panther Sounds and Because Music. The album features guest appearances by Swedish rapper and singer Bladee, and American musician Underscores. It was supported by the singles "Family and Friends", "Harvest Sky", the title track, "Take Me by the Hand", and "Blade Bird", which was named The Fader's #1 song of the year. Choke Enough has received considerable critical acclaim, including being named as the best album of 2025 by Crack and Time Out, and as one of the best albums of the year by The New York Times, Pitchfork and The Fader.
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Really enjoyed this. Ethereal and soothing!
Lush dreamy electronica that’s all floaty atmosphere and icey cold glistening surfaces. Synthy textures cut with warm organic instruments make a bedding for ethereal reverby hushed vocals that weave in and out, jumping over and below the surface for a neon pink oceanic feeling. The EDM touches loose it for a split seconds, but then it returns to an ambient trance hazy feeling stuff. Pretty cool wow.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Family and friends, Take me by the hand, Harvest sky, Blade bird
A great album and been listening to it since it came out last year but I don't think it's all that essential. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.
4 amazing
Couple of bangers here
Synth-pop, hyperpop, bedroom pop, hypnagogic pop, art pop. Ni fu ni fa.
She seems very talented but I'm not a fan of this style of music. Reminds me a bit of Bon Iver, and the same reason I don't like most of his stuff. 3 stars.
3/5
I'm fine with most things in modern music but autotune remains my one old-man-yells-at-clouds moment. Even on a really decent album like Oklou's Choke Enough, I just can't get past it. I know it's here to stay; some battles I just accept I've lost.
The muddy start had be dubious but it settled down and I ended up liking it pretty well. Heavy ha dedicated with the reverb though.
choke enough is okay at times but loses me with the autotune vocals, 2/5.
Two days ago, I'd never heard of that day's artist, underscores, and here she is guesting on today's album. This one didn't do it for me nearly as much though; it felt a little insubstantial and lacking in agency. A high two, because it wasn't unpleasant.
It was nice but unremarkable. And the auto tune grew to be quite annoying marked feature
Even as the album grew on me slightly, the whole experience felt ungrounded and lacking in substance. There’s not much to grip onto here in the minimal instrumentation or whispery vocals, the tracks just flit in and out of existence without leaving much of a mark. Perhaps this is a more experimental effort I’m missing the mark on, but overall this LP left me pretty high and dry.
Hyperpop, featuring another brand new add on this list...it was fine for a listen but seems souless
Not bad