In the present day, Norwegian-American artist Okay Kaya has launched her fourth studio album, ‘Oh My God – That’s So Me’.
The album was totally self-composed outdoors of Oslo, Norway. It comes two years after the transfixing ‘SAP‘, matching its predecessor’s inward-looking songwriting and exploration of the idiosyncrasies of human nature. A lot of ‘Oh My God…’ was mapped out in isolation, following Okay Kaya’s transfer to a brand new island house final yr. Solely accessible by boat, the secluded holm created a set of limitations and distance from mainland actions; the self-imposed exile in flip knowledgeable the stark, soul-cleansing really feel of the album.
Led by the singles ‘Verify Your Face’, ambient piano piece ‘Undulation Days‘, and the fundamental brushstroke ‘The Groke‘, the latter captured the shifting landscapes of our unstable ecosystem, and the neutering results of artifical devastation underpinning elements of the album. Talking on the only, Okay Kaya shared: “I used to be serious about ‘The Groke’ as an apt lore of the Nordic nations brutal seasons, and about how climates all over the world are getting extra temperamental. The refrain finish sentence is borrowed from Timothy Morton’s Darkish Ecology.”
‘Oh My God – That’s So Me’ proceeds in currents each subdued and commanding, animated by delicately drawn observations that resists embellishment and frills. Finally, the gathering is a sobering rumination on coming again to at least one self. ‘I’ll take the sensations, simply let me again into my physique once more,’ Okay Kaya sings on opening observe ‘The Wannabe’ – an admission that evokes the confronting, comforting energy on the coronary heart of the album.
Okay Kaya kicks off her European tour this Autumn, acting at London’s Village Underground November eighth, Leeds’ Belgrave Music Corridor on the 10t and Bristol’s Dareshack on November thirteenth.
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Photograph Credit score: Colby Sadeghi
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