‘Take Me As I Am’ doesn’t exist in the standard 3D tangible world that the rest of us mortals live and breathe in. You may be listening to it in the here and now, making cogent sense of heavily distorted lyrics about acceptance and safety, but the bass-driven, dreamy melody, hypnotic synths, mesmerising drum pounds and shimmering guitar emanate from the glitchy and detached, late web 1.0 liminal backrooms of cyber-space.
Before she slipped into this phantasmagorical other dimension, em koko found her footing in Abergavenny and played bass and synth for leading South Wales musicians Alice Low and Minas. Her debut single has the artist putting that bass and synth expertise right at the fore, creating industrial shoegaze, like Warpaint or DIIV, in her own name, communicating dissociated messages of strength and encouragement from beyond the liminal veil of the electronic mainframe.
em koko’s debut single ‘Take me as I am’ was released on March 20th 2024 and you can listen to it on all of the usual streaming platforms right now. We’ve put the Spotify link for you below: