With four newly added tracks, including a spectral duet with FKA twigs, the deluxe edition of choke enough fractures the familiar and stretches Oklou’s sound into thrillingly uncharted terrain. Here, genre is porous, feelings spill outward, and her artistry inhabits the daring, celestial heights of artists unafraid to make pop feel simultaneously alien and transformative.

RANGE ranked each track from choke enough’s deluxe expansion:

#4 “the fishsong unplugged”

A refreshingly bare moment in Oklou’s usually synthetic landscape, “the fishsong unplugged” feels like stepping out of the circuitry and into the quiet of morning. A weightless guitar riff anchors the song, its simplicity acting as a kind of exhale after the album’s emotional density. The track drifts forward on repetition—“I know you are onto something”—a mantra that feels both reassuring and uncertain, like reaching for meaning that never quite materializes.

The lyrics unravel like a parable: a mysterious golden fish, a flood, a refusal to let go. It’s an image that flirts with transformation, obsession, and care, though its exact meaning remains slippery. Maybe that’s the intention, however—the song resists interpretation, existing instead as a small, gleaming object of feeling. In stripping away her usual production armour, Mayniel reveals an artist still in conversation with mystery, still choosing tenderness over certainty.

#3 “what’s good”

If “the fishsong unplugged” finds Oklou alone in open air, “what’s good” pulls her gently back into the glow of a dim room. A looping piano progression hums beneath her tunneled vocals, soft and fogged, as if the song itself can’t decide whether or not to surface. It’s one of her most plainly emotional performances, a ballad that aches in deliberate stillness.

“What do you think? Oh, baby, do you think we already know what’s good?” she asks, her tone wavering with self-doubt. The lyrics feel both intimate and mediated—“I sent you my body and you sent me yours by text.” There’s something quietly devastating in that exchange: love translated, flattened, yet still pulsing with warmth.

#2 “viscus (feat. FKA twigs)”

With FKA twigs in tow, “viscus” feels most in step with the original choke enough—skeletal and emotionally knotted. The track walks a tightrope between Oklou’s syrupy autotuned trills and her love for shimmering glitch-core, where airy vocal runs drift over fractured beats and weightless synths, pulling you gently between intimacy and disarray. 

The lyrics capture that tight, claustrophobic feeling of anxiety—“All this fear that I hold / Is building up layers of time”—a desperate breath held too long, wanting to scream but stuck in a chokehold. It’s like the track itself exhales—beginning fragile and tight, then slowly unfurling into a hazy, weightless space where everything feels just a little more possible.

#1 “dance 2”

“dance 2” is a distant beacon that you can’t help but follow, a sprawl of synths that quiver like sugar water under a strobe. Oklou’s voice drifts in echoes, slipping between lucidity and fuzzy distortion, a whisper that insists on being—quite literally—danced to. Flecks of house peek through the thrum, tiny phosphorescent sparks in a fully realized, throbbing club atmosphere, and every stab of sound feels like a calculated jolt to the nervous system.

There’s a mischievous architecture to it: moments of ecstatic release collapse into brief, scintillating pockets of calm, only to surge again with relentless energy. Like a creature made of light and rhythm, the track feels simultaneously playful and uncanny. By the time it finishes, you’re convinced Oklou has invented her own gravity, one you want to lose yourself in over and over, trapped in her most seductive trance yet.