NEW SINGLE RELEASE
Bikôkô - Jealousy
Emotionally claustrophobic and bitingly relatable, rising star Bikôkô’s new single ‘Jealousy’ challenges its listeners through its exploration of the space between envy and desire.
Shortly after embarking on this musical journey alongside the London/Barcelona based artist, listeners are met with lightly bit crushed piano, contrasted by the smooth, airy timbre of Bikôkô’s voice as she sings “The way I look at her/Looks at me/That’s just how it goes/And we call it jealousy” a set of lyrics that read as frenetic and truncated, imbuing the track with a scattered, self-conscious quality.
From here the piece delves into a brief, but textured passage of mournful, warbling synths tinged with an old school sci-fi eeriness, paired with clattering, low fidelity additional percussion in the right ear that almost sound like a typewriter – as if Bikôkô is writing a scornful letter to her perceived rival.
Over piano, drums and bass, the first verse shows the singer at war, Bikôkô desperately attempts to separate the mind from the body, or perhaps perception from reality with “Hey you up there/Making problems out of thin air/You’ve said enough/Haven’t you said enough”, but then subverts this with the resigned admission that “Whatever I tell you/ You’ll forget by tomorrow” underlined by a descending guitar line that communicates a frank hopelessness.
At one point in the track, the instrumental evolves into a world music infused maelstrom, additional percussion emerges with a heavy groove that collapses in on itself as Bikôkô vocalises, siren-like in and amongst the stormy surrounds. Following this, the second verse sweeps in and Bikôkô switches to singing in Spanish, placing listeners into a psychic fun house of mirrors, bringing up themes of hatred, exhaustion and even contamination, or a pollution of the mind.
Despite the turmoil etched into the fabric of this track, Bikôkô opts conclude with an offer of guidance, saying “It’s nobody’s fault/So don’t feel bad if you’re caught up in that/Enquire to get to the root cause” – offering a shining light of clarity in a forest of dissension.
‘Jealousy’ begins the leadup to Bikôkô’s forthcoming EP titled “A 1 IS BETTER THAN A 0”, expected October 2024, and if this is anything to go off of, it looks to be immense.
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