OKLOU (FRA)

About This Event

<p><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(184, 49, 47);"><strong>All shows at Northcote Theatre are standing room unless otherwise specified<br>All shows at Northcote Theatre are licensed and strictly 18+</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Astral People, Handsome Tours, triple j &amp; Laneway Presents...</em><br><strong><span style="font-size: 24px;">OKLOU</span><br>(FRA)</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Guests: purient&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;">Projected from a silver light at the heart of the storm. French-born, London-based artist Oklou crafts a sound at the intersection of avant-pop &amp; electronica &ndash; work with a rare generosity that isolates, navigates, and ultimately pierces through its listeners.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Mixing her brush across vaporwave, trip-hop and trance, Oklou paints pop songs with a holistic touch. Her power extends beyond audio into the visual realm &ndash; most memorably in her NTS session, where three tracks from her newly released album Choke Hold were performed on an ice rink alongside a fleet of dancers. The performance unravelled a chaotic, icy language that runs beneath her art.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Before Choke Hold, there was Galore &ndash; her debut album, featuring collaborations with A.G. Cook and Caroline Polachek. That record revealed her murmured soprano and oceanic synths, transforming dispatches on isolation into glitch-pop hymns that felt both fragile and unshakable.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Where Galore placed listeners in a parallel universe, Choke Hold turns its gaze toward the everyday &ndash; weaving lush field recordings of barking dogs, cicadas, larks and laughter into its fabric. Working alongside long-time collaborator Casey MQ, Oklou expands her soundworld with folk guitar, trumpet, and saxophone &ndash; instruments that bring new warmth and texture to her once all-Roland palette.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Already set to appear at Laneway Festival 2026, Oklou now brings her first Australian headline shows to Sydney/Eora and Melbourne/Naarm. These nights will introduce audiences to her live performance on local soil &mdash; a rare chance to step inside her world of glamour and fracture, light and sincerity, where every detail carries the weight of her singular vision.</p>