Some brilliant songs here but the album walks a very thin line. When done right the minimalistic production creates some of the most beautiful and enchanting songs. However a good few of the songs just don't quite stand out enough and just fade into the background. Great debut and I feel oklou has the potential on a more refined album to make something incredible.
If your going to use autotune like this you need to commit to it. It doesn't compliment the song at all it's just a weird vocal filter that distracts from the substance of the song. Not that this song has much substance in the first place.
Falls a bit short of the potential promised by dopamine, and a little to brief. Still very enjoyable.
I wasn't that blow away by this on my first listen, but it's stuck with me. I've found myself coming back to it on cold days, when the wind is blowing. It's not an album that leaves you speechless, it's a slow resounding story.
Her most straight forward and consistent project in terms of sound, though not to it's detriment. She's here to make some electropop/EDM bangers and she fucking kills it.
A sludge of every depressed millennial song I heard on the radio growing up.
"We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death"
I think about this line a lot. While superficially this is a depressing line its a lot more nuanced. Really if the machine is bleeding to death wouldn't that mean freedom yet at the same time it could spell our doom. I can never find an answer. Really it's just an observation. We are trapped in this horrible machine, and it is bleeding to death. We can never know if the machines ... read more
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