Talking about virality on TikTok makes sense with Oklou, if only because of the eternal debate about how to pronounce her name (we settle it here: OK–LOU). But what’s really important is something else: on June 10, she’ll be performing at La Riviera on her first solo date in Madrid. In the meantime, and until tickets go on sale next week, we continue to peel back the layers of choke enough, the album she released a year ago.
And now, the important stuff: tickets go on sale on Fever next Friday, February 20, at 10:00 a.m. Prices start at €26 (plus distribution costs), and since it’s his first show and considering the string of sold-outs on his last tour, we recommend not thinking too hard about it.
Oklou in Madrid:from the rural universe to atmospheric electronica
Oklou is the project of Marylou Mayniel, a French musician and producer who has built her own universe within atmospheric electronica. It’s not exactly hyperpop, it’s not exactly digital folk, but she is one of those artists who have redefined the sound of sensitivity in Europe over the last five years. She is now in the middle of a global tour and Madrid is finally on her map in concert hall format on June 10, 2026.
At her concert in Paris in late 2025, she brought out a bagpiper to play the melodies of Harvest Sky. It’s not a random gesture: there’s something in her universe that comes from growing up in a rural village in France and bringing those folk and dreamlike textures to her music.
She definitely caught the world’s attention with her 2021 Boiler Room, when the format (until then synonymous with DJ booths) mutated for the first time outside the Boiler Room canon. Oklou appeared singing, shrouded in fog, in a moor that looked more like a scene from Wuthering Heights. She presented galore and, in a very elegant way, was marking her territory. Electronics as landscape, her voice between layers of sound, and aesthetics as part of the composition. It wasn’t a typical live performance, it was a statement. And now, in the midst of a global tour, that intuition from back then was almost premonitory.