{"id":72211,"date":"2025-10-10T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72211\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:55:07","slug":"oklou-viscus-ft-fka-twigs-track-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72211\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklou: \u201cviscus\u201d [ft. FKA twigs] Track Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pregnancy changed Oklou<\/a>\u2019s mind as well as her body. \u201cI feel like my consciousness has naturally, without me even trying, gotten rid of any source of stress and anxiety,\u201d she told FKA twigs<\/a> when the two artists spoke for Highsnobiety<\/a> earlier this year. On \u201cviscus,\u201d from the forthcoming deluxe edition of Oklou\u2019s debut album, choke enough<\/a>, the French electronic pop star-in-the-making meets one of her direct influences in the ether. At first, the track sounds right at home among the album\u2019s filigreed miniatures, but then the tinny percussion, vaporwave synthesisers, and chamber orchestration begin to interlock at new angles, forming a glittering exoskeleton.<\/p>\n

As she told Pitchfork in our cover story<\/a>, Oklou\u2019s creative process runs on late-night Logic sessions and long periods of isolation. \u201cviscus\u201d yearns to swap digital ideas for real bodies. \u201cI get lost so deep inside me,\u201d Oklou intones\u2014perhaps a characteristically oblique nod to the chronic stomachaches that she and twigs had bonded over. \u201cThe body is a temple\/Am I worshipping too hard?\u201d When twigs\u2019 voice enters, it\u2019s from the other side of the stereo mix, beckoning us from the cloud down to the club. Oklou has said that she used to dance far more than she does today; on \u201cviscus,\u201d we hear those muscles start to engage again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pregnancy changed Oklou\u2019s mind as well as her body. \u201cI feel like my consciousness has naturally, without me…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,9841,514],"class_list":{"0":"post-72211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-tracks","13":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}