Toiz touched down on material reality just long enough to drop her most recent seminal 8-bit hyper-pop track, Kamikaze.
Her sound belongs to a transhumanist future we haven’t caught up to yet, but every pulse of Kamikaze, which picks up where Atari Teenage Riot left off and injects intravenous shots of e-girl etherealism into the kinetic mix, brings us closer. In that imagined future, our rhythmic pulses are still electrified with beats and strobing synths, shimmering euphoria through our synapses.
Written, produced, and recorded entirely by multi-platinum songwriter Brooke Toia, Kamikaze is a high-stakes electronic pop anthem where love becomes a weapon and a shield. The glitchy beats twitch with urgency, soaring synth lines blur the line between ecstasy and chaos, and her vocals deliver each line like a prayer you whisper while the world is burning. Toiz sonically enacts love as surrender, throwing herself into the melee where devotion becomes strength.
Kamikaze marks the third instalment in the growing Toiz project, following Kryptonite and Sails, which explored vulnerability and freedom. This chapter feels bolder, fiercer, and more unshakable, proving Toiz has constructed a world where futuristic visuals and unfiltered emotion sit shoulder to shoulder. With her global songwriting credits and a decade of shaping other artists’ successes, she’s now building something entirely her own — a project as cinematic as it is cathartic, one beat away from rewiring the way you think about electro pop.
Kamikaze is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.
Review by Amelia Vandergast