# Oklou Announces In Waves Soundtrack: Hear “the swirl ahead”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/oklou-announces-in-waves-soundtrack-hear-the-swirl-ahead/
- Published: 2026-11-11T14:28:56+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T15:41:33+00:00
- Original publisher: Stereogum
- Original article: https://stereogum.com/2517570/oklou-in-waves-movie-soundtrack-score-the-swirl-ahead-rob/music/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Oklou and ROB are scoring the animated film *In Waves*.
- “the swirl ahead” is the first soundtrack track released.
- The 22-track album is due on 11 December.

## Summary

Oklou and fellow French artist ROB are scoring the animated film *In Waves*, adapting AJ Dungo’s graphic novel. The project brings Oklou’s electronic pop sound to a story inspired by Dungo’s life and is set to arrive alongside the film’s Netflix premiere.

The first released track, “the swirl ahead”, builds from synths and processed vocals into an orchestral pop crescendo. The 22-track soundtrack is due out on 11 December via Because. Directed by Phuong Mai Nguyen, the film stars Will Sharpe and Stephanie Hsu as AJ and Kristen, a couple whose shared love of surfing is shaped by Kristen’s cancer diagnosis.

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