Kandle has unleashed her strangest and most captivating work to date. The Montreal singer-songwriter’s new single Creation of Poison, out now via Hidden Pony Records, is a darkly cinematic meditation on toxic love wrapped in the aesthetic of a Jane Fonda workout video gone terrifyingly wrong. It’s equal parts seduction, satire, and swamp-monster romance, and it might be her best song yet.
“I wanted to make something that felt like if Jane Fonda got lost in a David Lynch film, equal parts sweat, seduction, and swamp,” Kandle says. “It’s about realizing you’re addicted to the very thing that’s destroying you and dancing through the chaos anyway.” That chaos is rendered in hypnotic detail: brooding percussion, vocals that alternate between whisper and wail, and a production aesthetic that nods to PJ Harvey, Portishead, and She Wants Revenge without mimicking any of them. The self-directed video, co-created with Jeffrey Mitchell, blends vintage VHS textures with camp horror energy, turning heartbreak into performance art.
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Mitchell co-wrote and co-produced the track, continuing a creative partnership that has defined Kandle’s recent output. The duo operates as a completely independent unit, writing, producing, shooting, and editing their own cinematic universe without label interference or outside funding. It’s a rare model in 2025, and it shows: Creation of Poison feels uncompromising, weird in the best way, and entirely their own.
Kandle has spent years building a noir-pop world where eyeliner counts as armour and every melody hides a confession. The daughter of 54-40 frontman Neil Osborne, she’s carved out a sound distinctly her own, elegiac, moody, and unafraid to tackle darkness head-on. Creation of Poison continues that tradition while pushing her work into stranger, more theatrical territory. It’s a gothic fever dream with a sense of humour, and it’s further proof that Kandle remains one of Montreal’s most fearless musical storytellers.
Photo – Ryan Rumpel
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