Oklou has announced the deluxe edition of her debut album ‘Choke Enough’ and released its first single, ‘Viscus’ featuring FKA Twigs.
The French singer is set to release four new songs including ‘Viscus’ on October 30 via Because/True Panther. An expansion-pack vinyl will arrive afterwards on November 28 – pre-save/pre-order here.
‘Viscus’ sees the pair duet over a jaunty, ethereal synth, as the pair trade lines over their shared anxieties about their stomach pains: “All this fear that I hold / Is building up layers of time / Can I just scream it all / Instead of it choking up my lungs?”
Speaking about the track, producer Danny L Harle wrote on Instagram that “when we first put the skeleton of this song together it had no lyrics, just a framework of beautiful interconnecting melodies. A few months later I saw a tiktok of Marylou performing it with lyrics that weaved her experience of pregnancy and memory into the fabric of the song. it was a profound experience.
“Marylou then left it to me to finish the production whilst she had her baby and record Twigs singing the feature, which came very easily to her, the perfect addition lyrically and melodically to the composition”.
Take a listen to ‘viscus’ down below:
We spoke to Oklou for The Cover, where she spoke to us about how love inspires her artistry. “I think I grew up under a very romantic and, of course, patriarchal vision of what love is and how you’re supposed to experience it as a woman and as a partner – and also as an artist,” Mayniel told us.
She also hinted at the impact of her pregnancy on her music, adding: “After what I’ve experienced – and after having thought about love so much, and questioning the way I’m built for that – I couldn’t make music in the same way.”
Meanwhile, FKA Twigs is gearing up to release her new album ‘EUSEXUA: Afterglow’ on November 14.
The artist and NME Godlike Genius winner first announced the follow-up to her Mercury-nominated 2025 record ‘EUSEXUA’ last month; it will serve as an entirely new album, rather than a deluxe as it was first believed.
We reviewed ‘EUSEXUA’ when it first landed, giving it five stars and writing: “Twigs has successfully shown that the connection of music, movement, mind, soul and body can be converted into sound, weaving these elements into a cohesive and transcendent artistic experience.
Then, when the singer visited London for two performances at Magazine, we gave her performance four stars: “Dancers hang chains connected to her dress to all four corners of the box and every spotlight is rigged onto her; Twigs has no choice but to bare her soul to the crowd.
“To end the set with a song that expresses such spiritual suffering with some of the most magnificent vocals is truly brave; every tremble and crack in her voice is deeply felt, and it’s the most connected we feel to her all night. Now that’s ‘Eusexua’.”
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